Niche position, but not niche breadth, differs in two coexisting amphibians having contrasting trends in Europe

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 692-700

  Rannap, Riinu ^a,b   Lõhmus, Asko ^a   Briggs, Lars ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b Ministry of the Environment   (Estonia)

^c International Sciencepark Odense ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Caudata; Conservation management; Habitat degradation; Habitat requirements; Rarity; Threatened species

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NICHE BREADTH; NUMERICAL MODEL; POND; RARITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

AMPHIBIA; CAUDATA; INVERTEBRATA; SALAMANDRIDAE; SALAMANDROIDEA; TRITURUS CRISTATUS; TRITURUS VULGARIS;

EID: 67149115091     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2009.00575.x     Document Type: Article

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