Supplementation or in situ conservation? Evidence of local adaptation in the Italian agile frog Rana latastei and consequences for the management of populations

Animal Conservation

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 33-40

  Ficetola, Gentile Francesco ^a   De Bernardi, Fiorenza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; FROG; RELOCATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TRANSLOCATION;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

ANURA; RANA DALMATINA; RANA LATASTEI;

EID: 15044361073     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1367943004001805     Document Type: Article

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