Turning population trend monitoring into active conservation: Can we save the cascades frog (Rang cascadae) in the Lassen Region of California?

Herpetological Conservation and Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 28-39

  Fellers, Gary M ^a   Pope, Karen L ^b   Stead, Jonathan E ^c   Koo, Michelle S ^d   Welsh Jr , Hartwell H ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Cascades frog; Conservation; Declining amphibian; Lassen; Population status; Rana cascadae

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; RANA CASCADAE; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 51449116167     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19317603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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