Implications of microhabitat selection and patterns of activity on the thermal ecology of high elevation neotropical anurans

Oecologia

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 617-626

  Navas, Carlos A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

High elevation frogs; Microhabitat; Thermal ecology

Indexed keywords

FROG; HABITAT SELECTION; THERMAL ECOLOGY;

COLOMBIA, ANDES; SOUTH AMERICA, ANDES;

ATELOPUS; COLOSTETHUS SUBPUNCTATUS; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS BOGOTENSIS; HYLA LABIALIS;

EID: 0030301679     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00329034     Document Type: Article

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