Tests of null models for amphibian declines on a tropical mountain

Conservation Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1307-1322

  Pounds, J Alan ^a,b   Fogden, Michael P L ^a,b   Savage, Jay M ^b   Gorman, George C ^c  

^a Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve T   (Costa Rica)

^b Department of Biology   (United States)

^c 952 The Alameda ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN DECLINE; POPULATION DECLINE;

COSTA RICA, CORDILLERA DE TILARIAN MONTEVERDE;

BUFO PERIGLENES; CENTROLENELLA PROSOBLEPON; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS DIASTEMA; HYALINOBATRACHIUM FLEISCHMANNI; HYLA PSEUDOPUMA;

EID: 0031472633     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1997.95485.x     Document Type: Article

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