Assessing the value of secondary forest for amphibians: Eleutherodactylus frogs in a gradient of forest alteration

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2185-2195

  Ficetola, Gentile Francesco ^a,b   Furlani, Dario ^a,c   Colombo, Giorgio ^a   De Bernardi, Fiorenza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abundance; Amphibian conservation; Audio strip transects; Costa Rica; Deforestation; Eleutherodactylus diastema; Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; BIODIVERSITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLEXITY; DEFORESTATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOOD WEB; FOREST DYNAMICS; FROG; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; NUTRIENT CYCLING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SECONDARY FOREST; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TROPICAL FOREST;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS DIASTEMA; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS FITZINGERI;

EID: 47149097649     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-007-9280-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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