Influences of wetland and landscape characteristics on the distribution of carpenter frogs

Wetlands

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 261-269

  Otto, Clint R V ^a   Forester, Don C ^a   Snodgrass, Joel W ^a  

^a TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian conservation; Concentric buffers; Forest cover; Habitat quality; Hydroperiod; Lithobates virgatipes; pH; Rana virgatipes

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; FOREST COVER; FROG; HABITAT QUALITY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WETLAND;

MARYLAND; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; LITHOBATES; RANA VIRGATIPES;

EID: 46049091952     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1672/0277-5212(2007)27[261:IOWALC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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