Eating frogs to extinction

Conservation Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1056-1059

  Warkentin, Ian G ^a   Bickford, David ^b   Sodhi, Navjot S ^b,c   Bradshaw, Corey J A ^d,e  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^e SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CONSERVATION STATUS; EXPLOITATION; EXTINCTION; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FOOD WEB; FROG; HARVESTING; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; MASS EXTINCTION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD; PREDATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOOD; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDONESIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

ANURA;

EID: 67650465554     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.01165.x     Document Type: Article

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