Effects of introduced bullfrogs and smallmouth bass on microhabitat use, growth, and survival of native red-legged frogs (Rana aurora)

Conservation Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 776-787

  Kiesecker, Joseph M ^a   Blaustein, Andrew R ^b  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HABITAT USE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; METAMORPHOSIS; MICROHABITAT; NATIVE SPECIES; SURVIVAL;

MICROPTERUS DOLOMIEU; RANA AURORA; RANA CATESBEIANA;

EID: 0031857889     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.1998.97125.x     Document Type: Article

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