The contribution of habitat loss to changes in body size, allometry, and bilateral asymmetry in two Eleutherodactylus frogs from Puerto Rico

Conservation Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 773-782

  Delgado Acevedo, Johanna ^a,b   Restrepo, Carla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY KINGSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometry; Amphibians; Body size; Fluctuating asymmetry; Greater Antilles; Habitat loss; Phenotypic variation; Puerto Rico

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ASYMMETRY; BODY SHAPE; BODY SIZE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FOREST COVER; FROG; HABITAT LOSS; LIFE HISTORY; MORPHOLOGY; PERSISTENCE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DECLINE; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; FROGS AND TOADS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PUERTO RICO; TREE;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BODY SIZE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; PUERTO RICO; TREES;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; PUERTO RICO;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS ANTILLENSIS; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS COQUI;

EID: 44949085499     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.00930.x     Document Type: Article

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