Ecological Traits Predicting Amphibian Population Declines in Central America

Conservation Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1078-1088

  Lips, Karen R ^a   Reeve, John D ^a   Witters, Lani R ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; POPULATION DECLINE; SURVEYING; TAXONOMY;

CENTRAL AMERICA;

AMPHIBIA;

EID: 0012241207     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2003.01623.x     Document Type: Article

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