Survival costs associated with wood frog breeding migrations: Effects of timber harvest and drought

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1620-1630

  Rittenhouse, Tracy A G ^a,c   Semlitsch, Raymond D ^a   Thompson III, Frank R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b US Forest Service Northern Research Station   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Anuran; Desiccation; Drought; Predation; Radiotelemetry; Rana sylvatica; Timber harvest; Wood frogs

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SITE; DROUGHT; FITNESS; FROG; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; MORTALITY; PREDATION RISK; RADIOTELEMETRY; SURVIVAL; TIMBER HARVESTING; TRADE-OFF;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; DEHYDRATION; DROUGHT; FEMALE; FORESTRY; FROG; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BREEDING; DEHYDRATION; DROUGHTS; FEMALE; FORESTRY; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RANIDAE; REPRODUCTION;

ANURA; RANA SYLVATICA;

EID: 67449161802     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-0326.1     Document Type: Article

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