Recovery of frog and lizard communities following primary habitat alteration in Mizoram, Northeast India

BMC Ecology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Pawar, Samraat S ^a,b   Rawat, Gopal S ^a   Choudhury, Binod C ^a  

^a WILDLIFE INSTITUTE OF INDIA   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANURA; SQUAMATA; TECTONA GRANDIS;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANURA; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INDIA; LIZARD; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; POACEAE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TREE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANURA; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT; INDIA; LIZARDS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANTS; POACEAE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TREES;

EID: 5444225351     PISSN: 14726785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6785-4-10     Document Type: Article

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