'Sleepless in Hawaii' - does anthropogenic climate change enhance ecological and socioeconomic impacts of the alien invasive Eleutherodactylus coqui Thomas 1966 (Anura: Eleutherodactylidae)?

North-Western Journal of Zoology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 16-25

  Rödder, Dennis ^a,b  

^a ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate envelope; Ecological niche Modelling; Exotic species; Maxent; Worldclim

Indexed keywords

ANURA; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS COQUI;

EID: 69149107009     PISSN: 15849074     EISSN: 18435629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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