Global amphibian declines: Sorting the hypotheses

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 89-98

  Collins, James P ^a   Storfer, Andrew ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian declines; Complexity; Sorting hypotheses; Time scale

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; POPULATION DECLINE;

AMPHIBIA;

EID: 0037336732     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1472-4642.2003.00012.x     Document Type: Review

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