Movement patterns and the conservation of amphibians breeding in small, temporary wetlands

Conservation Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 331-339

  Dodd Jr , C Kenneth ^a   Cade, Brian S ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; CONSERVATION; MOVEMENT; TEMPORARY POND; WETLAND;

FLORIDA; USA;

GASTROPHRYNE CAROLINENSIS; NOTOPHTHALMUS PERSTRIATUS;

EID: 0345486976     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.1998.97183.x     Document Type: Article

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