Canopy closure and amphibian diversity in forested wetlands

Wetlands Ecology and Management

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 261-268

  Skelly, David K ^a,b   Halverson, M Anders ^a   Freidenburg, L Kealoha ^b   Urban, Mark C ^a  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Buffer zone; Canopy; Community; Distribution; Experiment; Forest; Freshwater; Global site factor

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; CANOPY; WETLAND;

CONNECTICUT; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

AMPHIBIA;

EID: 21644485177     PISSN: 09234861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11273-004-7520-y     Document Type: Article

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