Dispersal and the metapopulation paradigm in amphibian ecology and conservation: Are all amphibian populations metapopulations?

Ecography

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 110-128

  Smith, M Alex ^a,b   Green, David M ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; CONSERVATION; DISPERSAL; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; METAPOPULATION;

AMPHIBIA; AMPHIUMA MEANS; ANURA; CAUDATA;

EID: 13944273116     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0906-7590.2005.04042.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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