Habitat associations of chorusing anurans in the Lower Mississippi River Alluvial valley

Wetlands

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 736-744

  Lichtenberg, Janene S ^a,b   King, Sammy L ^a,c   Grace, James B ^a   Walls, Susan C ^a  

^a NATIONAL WETLANDS RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Wildlife Management Program ^*  (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian communities; Chorus surveys; Conservation; Frogs; Habitat relationships; Species richness; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

FROG; MICROHABITAT; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; WETLAND;

MISSISSIPPI VALLEY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ACRIS CREPITANS; AMPHIBIA; ANURA; RANA CATESBEIANA; RANA CLAMITANS CLAMITANS;

EID: 33845739685     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1672/0277-5212(2006)26[736:HAOCAI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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