Spatial distribution and seasonal pattern in road mortality of the common toad Bufo bufo in an agricultural landscape of south-western Poland

Amphibia Reptilia

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 25-31

  Orłowski, Grzegorz ^a  

^a WROC AW UNIVERSITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BREEDING POPULATION; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TOAD;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; BUFO BUFO;

EID: 34547944571     PISSN: 01735373     EISSN: 15685381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853807779799045     Document Type: Article

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