Road proximity increases risk of skeletal abnormalities in wood frogs from national wildlife refuges in Alaska

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 116, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1009-1014

  Reeves, Mari K ^a,b   Doplh, Christine L ^c   Zimmer, Heidi ^d   Tjeerdema, Ronald S ^b   Trust, Kimberly A ^a  

^a U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abnormality; Alaska; Amphibian; Lithobates sylvaticus; Malformation; National wildlife refuge; Rana sylvatica; Wood frog

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; BREEDING; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EYE MALFORMATION; FROG; MICROMELIA; NONHUMAN; PHOCOMELIA; POLLUTION; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKELETON MALFORMATION; TRAFFIC; TREMATODE; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; UNITED STATES; WILDLIFE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BONE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; ECHINOSTOMA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; LITHOBATES; RANA SYLVATICA; RIBEIROIA ONDATRAE; TREMATODA;

ALASKA; ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECHINOSTOMATIDAE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EYE ABNORMALITIES; GEOGRAPHY; RANIDAE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 51249113712     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.10963     Document Type: Article

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