Responses of pond-breeding amphibians to wildfire: Short-term patterns in occupancy and colonization

Ecological Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1403-1410

  Hossack, Blake R ^a   Corn, Paul Stephen ^a  

^a USDA Forest Service Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambystoma macrodactylum; Amphibians; Bufo boreas; Colonization; Conservation; Detection; Extinction; Fire; Occupancy; Population dynamics; Rana luteiventris

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SITE; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DETECTION METHOD; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXTINCTION; FROG; POND; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SNOWPACK; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOAD; WETLAND; WILDFIRE;

AMBYSTOMA; AMBYSTOMA MACRODACTYLUM; AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BUFO BOREAS; BUFO BOREAS BOREAS; RANA LUTEIVENTRIS; SALAMANDROIDEA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; FROGS AND TOADS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMALS; ANURA; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 34848893119     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-2037.1     Document Type: Article

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