Mass mortality and population declines of anurans at an upland site in Western Panama

Conservation Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 117-125

  Lips, Karen R ^a,b  

^a ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; FUNGAL DISEASE; MASS MORTALITY; POPULATION DECLINE; UPLAND REGION;

PANAMA;

EID: 0033011386     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1999.97185.x     Document Type: Article

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