Comparative landscape dynamics of two anuran species: Climate-driven interaction of local and regional processes

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 503-521

  Werner, Earl E ^a   Relyea, Rick A ^b   Yurewicz, Kerry L ^c   Skelly, David K ^d   Davis, Christopher J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c PLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

Anurans; Colonization; Extinction; Food webs; Local and regional processes; Long term data; Metacommunity; Metapopulation; Pond hydroperiod; Predators; Pseudacris spp.; Sink habitats

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONSERVATION PLANNING; FOREST CANOPY; FROG; HETEROGENEITY; HYDROPERIOD; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LARVA; METAPOPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; PREDATION;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; HYLA; PSEUDACRIS; PSEUDACRIS CRUCIFER; PSEUDACRIS TRISERIATA;

EID: 68149136838     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1047.1     Document Type: Article

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