Impacts of selective logging on frogs in a forested area of northern New South Wales

Biological Conservation

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 321-328

  Lemckert, Francis ^a  

^a Forest R D Div Stt Forests N   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abundance; Conservation; Frogs; Logging impacts; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CONSERVATION STATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FROG; SELECTIVE LOGGING; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AUSTRALIA;

ADELOTUS BREVIS; ANURA; HYLIDAE; MIXOPHYES; MIXOPHYES FASCIOLATUS; MIXOPHYES ITERATUS; REPTILIA;

EID: 0032922343     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(98)00117-7     Document Type: Article

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