Large variations in the ratio of effective breeding and census population sizes between two species of pond-breeding anurans

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 365-372

  Brede, Edward G ^a,b   Beebee, Trevor J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Census size; Effective size; Microsatellites; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SEASON; BREEDING SITE; CENSUS; MONITORING; POND; POPULATION SIZE; SEX RATIO; VIABILITY; WILD POPULATION;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BUFO BUFO; RANA TEMPORARIA;

EID: 33748795549     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00680.x     Document Type: Article

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