Climatic change and wetland desiccation cause amphibian decline in Yellowstone National Park

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 44, 2008, Pages 16988-16993

  McMenamin, Sarah K ^a   Hadly, Elizabeth A ^a   Wright, Christopher K ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian community; Drought; Global warming; Landscape change; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DESICCATION; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; LANDSCAPE; NATIONAL PARK; NONHUMAN; POND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMOTE SENSING; WARMING; WETLAND;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; UNITED STATES; WETLANDS;

AMPHIBIA;

EID: 55949105603     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0809090105     Document Type: Article

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