Dispersal and colonization through open fields by a terrestrial, woodland salamander

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3396-3405

  Marsh, David M ^a   Thakur, Kanishka A ^a   Bulka, Kimberley C ^a   Clarke, L Blaine ^a  

^a WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Barrier effect; Colonization; Dispersal; Habitat fragmentation; Matrix; Movement; Plethodon cinereus; Salamander

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; COLONIZATION; DISPERSAL; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MOVEMENT;

AMPHIBIA; AMPHIUMA MEANS; ANIMALIA; CAUDATA; PLETHODON; PLETHODON CINEREUS;

EID: 11844277118     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-0713     Document Type: Article

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