Density and diversity of forest floor anurans in the rain forests of southern Western Ghats, India

Herpetologica

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 207-215

  Vasudevan, Karthikeyan ^a   Kumar, Ajith ^b   Noon, Barry R ^c   Chellam, Ravi ^d  

^a WILDLIFE INSTITUTE OF INDIA   (India)

^b TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d Ashoka Trust for Ecology and the Environment   (India)

Author keywords

diversity; Anurans; Density; Detection probability; Quadrats; Rain forests; Western Ghats

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOREST FLOOR; FROG; NATURE RESERVE; POPULATION DENSITY; RAINFOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TURNOVER; WATERSHED;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; KALAKAD-MUNDANTHURAI TIGER RESERVE; SOUTH ASIA; TAMIL NADU; WESTERN GHATS;

ANURA;

EID: 47749099286     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1655/07-066.1     Document Type: Article

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