Potential effects of climate change on two Neotropical amphibian assemblages

Climatic Change

Volumn 39, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 541-561

  Donnelly, Maureen A ^a   Crump, Martha L ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FROG; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREY AVAILABILITY; REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

AMPHIBIA;

EID: 0031876068     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1005315821841     Document Type: Review

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