Consequences of habitat loss and fragmentation for wetland amphibian assemblages

Wetlands

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-12

  Lehtinen, Richard M ^a,b   Galatowitsch, Susan M ^a   Tester, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Habitat fragmentation; Landscape ecology; Metapopulations; Minnesota; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; WETLAND;

MINNESOTA; UNITED STATES;

AMBYSTOMA; AMBYSTOMA TIGRINUM; AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BUFO AMERICANUS; RANA PIPIENS; REPTILIA;

EID: 0032823616     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03161728     Document Type: Article

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