The fate of the harlequin toads — Help through a synchronous multi-disciplinary approach and the IUCN ‘Amphibian conservation action plan’?

Zoosystematics and Evolution

Volumn 83, Issue S1, 2007, Pages 69-73

  Lötters, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amphibia; Atelopus; Bufonidae; Chytridiomycosis; Climatic envelope; Emerging infectious disease; Ex situ conservation; Genus extinction; Global warming; Neotropics

Indexed keywords

EID: 50949092540     PISSN: 14351935     EISSN: 18600743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mmnz.200600028     Document Type: Article

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