How frogs and humans interact: Influences beyond habitat destruction, epidemics and global warming

Applied Herpetology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-18

  Tyler, Michael J ^a   Wassersug, Richard ^b   Smith, Benjamin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Email:   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anurans; Beneficial interactions; Deleterious interactions; Food; Frogs; Knowledge; Medicinal applications; Peptides; Pets; Roads

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547520148     PISSN: 15707539     EISSN: 15707547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157075407779766741     Document Type: Article

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