Seasonal abundance in the floor-dwelling frog fauna on Iriomote Island of the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 85-91

  Watanabe, Shinichi ^a,b   Nakanishi, Nozomi ^a   Izawa, Masako ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Anurans; Biomass; Density estimate; Frog community; Island ecology; Quadrat sampling; Seasonal change; Subtropical forest

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; FROG; ISLAND; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUBTROPICAL REGION;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; IRIOMOTE; JAPAN; OKINAWA [RYUKYU ISLANDS]; RYUKYU ISLANDS; WORLD;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; FEJERVARYA; FEJERVARYA LIMNOCHARIS; MICROHYLA; MICROHYLA ORNATA;

EID: 13544255591     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266467404002068     Document Type: Article

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