The effects of variation in climatic temperature (1980-2001) on breeding activity and tadpole stage duration in the common toad, Bufo bufo

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 310, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 231-236

  Reading, C J ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breeding; Bufo bufo; Climate; Tadpoles; Temperature

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DATA REDUCTION; POPULATION STATISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CLIMATIC TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

BREEDING SEASON; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SPAWNING; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TOAD;

ARTICLE; BREEDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; POND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPAWNING; TADPOLE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TOAD; UNITED KINGDOM; WINTER;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANURA; BUFO; BUFO BUFO;

EID: 0037939708     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(02)00643-5     Document Type: Article

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