Older is better: Beaver ponds on boreal streams as breeding habitat for the wood frog

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1360-1371

  Stevens, Cameron E ^a   Paszkowski, Cynthia A ^a   Scrimgeour, Garry J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Alberta Conservation Association   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alberta; Anuran amphibians; Boreal forest; Canopy cover; Castor canadensis; Dissolved oxygen; Habitat selection; Larval dynamics; Pond age; Population fluctuations; Rana sylvatica; Succession; Water temperature

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SITE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FROG; METAMORPHOSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POND; RIPARIAN ZONE; SUCCESSION;

ALBERTA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; CASTOR CANADENSIS; RANA SYLVATICA;

EID: 33845429217     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0022-541X(2006)70[1360:OIBBPO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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