Ecological Morphology and Flight in Bats (Mammalia; Chiroptera): Wing Adaptations, Flight Performance, Foraging Strategy and Echolocation

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• Publication year

  1987

• Venue

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

• Publication date

  1987-09-16

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1098/RSTB.1987.0030
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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