Habitat and landscape characteristics underlying anuran community structure along an urban rural gradient

Ecological Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1107-1118

  Pillsbury, Finn C ^a   Miller, James R ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Anuran; Canonical correspondence analysis; Community structure; Connectivity; Fragmentation; Landscape; Ordination; Spatial scale; Upland; Urbanization; Wetland

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CALLING BEHAVIOR; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONNECTIVITY; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; FROG; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HABITAT USE; HYDROPERIOD; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; ORDINATION; POPULATION DECLINE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; UPLAND REGION; URBANIZATION; WETLAND;

IOWA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FROGS AND TOADS; UNITED STATES; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; ANURA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; IOWA; WETLANDS;

EID: 55949108084     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-1899.1     Document Type: Article

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