Increased diet breadth of little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) at their northern range limit: a multi-method approach

• Main Authors: Shively, Rachel, Barboza, Perry, Doak, Patricia, Jung, Thomas
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: NRC Research Press (a division of Canadian Science Publishing) 2017
• Subjects: Arctic; Yukon; Guano; Subarctic; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/81164; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjz-2017-0017

The distribution of small mammals is constrained by extreme environmental demands and variable food supplies that are commonly incurred at northern latitudes. Little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus Le Conte, 1831) are at the northwestern limits of their range in Alaska, where environmental demands are...