Regional dynamics of wetland-breeding frogs and toads: Turnover and synchrony

Ecological Applications

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1522-1532

  Trenham, Peter C ^a,c   Koenig, Walter D ^b   Mossman, Michael J ^d   Stark, Stacey L ^a,e   Jagger, Leslie A ^a,f  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b Center for Gender Refugee Studies   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^f USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anuran; Autocorrelation; Frog; Metapopulation; Monitoring; Rainfall synchrony; Spatial synchrony; Toad; Turnover; Wetland; Wisconsin

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; METAPOPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAINFALL; SYNCHRONY; TURNOVER; WETLAND;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; REPTILIA;

EID: 1642305708     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/02-5206     Document Type: Review

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