Potential causes for amphibian declines in Puerto Rico

Herpetologica

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 141-154

  Burrowes, Patricia A ^a   Joglar, Rafael L ^a   Green, David E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian declines; Caribbean; Chytrid fungi; Climate change; Disease; Eleutherodactylus; Puerto Rico

Indexed keywords

DISEASE; DROUGHT; FROG; FUNGUS; POPULATION DECLINE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; PUERTO RICO;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS ENEIDAE; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS JASPERI; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS KARLSCHMIDTI; FUNGI; REPTILIA;

EID: 2442530795     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1655/03-50     Document Type: Article

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