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Altitudinal variation in the subcanopy fruit bat guild in Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, Central Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

J. Juste B.  and
J. Perez Del Val
J. Juste B.
Affiliation:
Estación Biológica de Doñana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Apartado 1056, E-41080 Sevilla, Spain
J. Perez Del Val
Affiliation:
Asociación de Amigos del Coto de Doñana, Apartado 2182, E-41080 Sevilla, Spain
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Keywords

altitudinal variationBiokoCentral Africafruit batPteropodidaetropical forest
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Journal of Tropical Ecology , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , February 1995 , pp. 141 - 146
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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