An experimental investigation of landscape resistance of forest versus old-field habitats to emigrating juvenile amphibians

Conservation Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1324-1332

  Rothermel, Betsie B ^a   Semlitsch, Raymond D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; DISPERSAL; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; PERSISTENCE;

AMBYSTOMA; AMBYSTOMA MACULATUM; AMBYSTOMA TEXANUM; AMPHIBIA; AMPHIUMA MEANS; ANURA; BUFO; BUFO AMERICANUS; CAUDATA;

EID: 0036792947     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2002.01085.x     Document Type: Article

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