Amphibians and fire in longleaf pine ecosystems: Response to Schurbon and Fauth

Conservation Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1149-1153

  Means, D Bruce ^a   Dodd Jr , C Kenneth ^b   Johnson, Steve A ^b   Palis, John G ^c  

^a Coast Plains Inst Land Conserv ^*  (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; WILDFIRE;

AMPHIBIA; PINUS PALUSTRIS;

EID: 4043166324     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2004.00017.x     Document Type: Note

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