Suitability of golf course ponds for amphibian metamorphosis when bullfrogs are removed

Conservation Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 172-179

  Boone, Michelle D ^a,b   Semlitsch, Raymond D ^b   Mosby, Cory ^b  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian metamorphosis; Competition; Golf course ponds; Predation; Rana catesbeiana

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FROG; GOLF COURSE; HYDROPERIOD; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; METAMORPHOSIS; PREDATION; WETLAND;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FISH; INVERTEBRATE; METAMORPHOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANKTON; SPORT;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; FRESH WATER; GOLF; INVERTEBRATES; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANKTON;

AMBYSTOMA; AMBYSTOMA MACULATUM; AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BUFO AMERICANUS; FELIDAE; HEXAPODA; RANA CATESBEIANA; RANA SPHENOCEPHALA; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 38849118386     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2007.00817.x     Document Type: Article

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