Amphibian declines and environmental change: Use of remote-sensing data to identify environmental correlates

Conservation Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 903-913

  Carey, Cynthia ^a   Heyer, W Ronald ^b   Wilkinson, John ^c   Alford, Ross A ^d   Arntzen, J W ^e   Halliday, Tim ^c   Hungerford, Laura ^f   Lips, Karen R ^g   Middleton, Elizabeth M ^h   Orchard, Stan A ⁱ   Rand, A Stanley ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^g SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ World Wildlife Fund for Nature Australia   (Australia)

^j SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; NATURE CONSERVATION; POPULATION DECLINE; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0034907634     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2001.015004903.x     Document Type: Article

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