Rates of cutaneous evaporative water loss of native Fijian frogs

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 1, 2006, Pages 83-88

  Young, Jeanne E ^a,b   Tracy, Christopher R ^a   Christian, Keith A ^a   Mcarthur, Lorrae J ^a  

^a CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESICCATION; FROG; TOLERANCE;

FIJI; MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ANURA; HYLIDAE; PLATYMANTIS; PLATYMANTIS VITIENSIS; RANIDAE;

EID: 33644881638     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1643/0045-8511(2006)006[0083:ROCEWL]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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