Priority effects and desert anuran communities

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 83, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1112-1116

  Dayton, G H ^a,b   Fitzgerald, L A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MOSS LANDING MARINE LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE; ECOLOGY;

DESERT ANURAN COMMUNITIES; EPHEMERAL POOLS;

BIODIVERSITY;

AMPHIBIAN; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DESERT; EPHEMERAL POOL; PREDATION;

BUFO SPECIOSUS; SCAPHIOPUS COUCHII;

EID: 28444457776     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Z05-105     Document Type: Article

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