The importance of spatial scale for conservation and assessment of anuran populations in coastal wetlands of the western Great Lakes, USA

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 441-454

  Price, Steven J ^a,c   Marks, David R ^a,d   Howe, Robert W ^a   Hanowski, JoAnn M ^b   Niemi, Gerald J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN GREEN BAY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^c DAVIDSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Frogs; Habitat associations; Lake Huron; Lake Michigan; Landscape; Logistic regression; Predictive models; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

COASTAL WETLAND; FROG; HABITAT CONSERVATION; SCALE EFFECT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

GREAT LAKES; LAKE HURON; LAKE MICHIGAN; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BUFO AMERICANUS; HYLA VERSICOLOR; PSEUDACRIS CRUCIFER; PSEUDACRIS TRISERIATA; RANA CLAMITANS; RANA CLAMITANS MELANOTA;

EID: 26244439531     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-004-3167-6     Document Type: Article

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