Collapse of a regional frog fauna in the yosemite area of the California Sierra Nevada, USA

Conservation Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 414-425

  Drost, Charles A ^a,c   Fellers, Gary M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Point Reyes National Seashore   (United States)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; FROG; INTRODUCED FISH; POPULATION DECLINE; TOAD;

USA, CALIFORNIA, SIERRA NEVADA, YOSEMITE;

EID: 0029731910     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1996.10020414.x     Document Type: Article

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