The effect of fish and aquatic habitat complexity on amphibians

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 583, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 173-182

  Hartel, Tibor ^a,g   Nemes, Szilárd ^b   Cogǎlniceanu, Dan ^c   Öllerer, Kinga ^a   Schweiger, Oliver ^d   Moga, Cosmin Ioan ^e   Demeter, László ^f  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c OVIDIUS UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^d HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^e BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^f SAPIENTIA HUNGARIAN UNIVERSITY OF TRANSYLVANIA   (Romania)

^g Mircea Eliade College   (Romania)

Author keywords

Amphibian conservation; Emergent aquatic vegetation cover; Introduced fish; Romania

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FISH; OCEAN HABITATS; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; VEGETATION;

AMPHIBIAN CONSERVATION; EMERGENT AQUATIC VEGETATION COVER; INTRODUCED FISH; ROMANIA;

ANIMALS;

AMPHIBIAN; COMPLEXITY; HABITAT QUALITY; ICHTHYOFAUNA; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; POND; PREDATION RISK; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES INVENTORY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; VEGETATION COVER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TARNAVA MARE VALLEY;

AMPHIBIA;

EID: 34047181527     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-006-0490-8     Document Type: Article

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