Urban amphibian assemblages as metacommunities

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 757-764

  Parris, Kirsten M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Community ecology; Deviance Information Criterion; Model selection; Urban ecology

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; BREEDING; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LOCAL EXTINCTION; POND; SPECIES RICHNESS; URBAN ECOSYSTEM;

ADAPTATION; AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; URBANIZATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMPHIBIA; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; URBANIZATION; VICTORIA;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MELBOURNE; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

AMPHIBIA;

EID: 33646556668     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2006.01096.x     Document Type: Article

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