Landscape effects on anuran pond occupancy in an agricultural countryside: Barrier-based buffers predict distributions better than circular buffers

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 86, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 692-699

  Zanini, Flavio ^a,b,f   Klingemann, Anna ^c,g   Schlaepfer, Rodolphe ^a   Schmidt, Benedikt R ^d,e  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e KARCH Switzerland   (Switzerland)

^f Drosera SA   (Switzerland)

^g Entwicklung der Landwirtschaft und des landlichen Raums   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; FROG; LANDSCAPE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MOVEMENT; POND; PREDICTION; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA;

EID: 47249163690     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Z08-048     Document Type: Article

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