Project anuran: A multi-species monitoring project at the tropical lowland forest site of Las Cuevas, Chiquibul Forest Reserve, Belize

Herpetological Bulletin

Volumn , Issue 78, 2001, Pages 7-15

  Gardner, Toby ^a,b   Fitzherbert, Emily ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

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