Health evaluation of amphibians in and near Rocky Mountain National Park (Colorado, USA)

Alytes

Volumn 22, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 109-129

  Green, D Earl ^a   Muths, Erin ^b  

^a NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; BOREAS; BUFO BOREAS; BUFO WOODHOUSII; ENTEROBACTER; FUNGI; IRIDOVIRUS; OOMYCETES; PSEUDACRIS MACULATA; RANA SYLVATICA; RANAVIRUS; RHABDIAS;

EID: 20444418716     PISSN: 07534973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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