Decreased winter severity increases viability of a montane frog population

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 8644-8649

  McCaffery, Rebecca M ^a   Maxell, Bryce A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Climate change; Demography; Rana luteiventris; Snowpack

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FROG; HABITAT; MALE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANA LUTEIVENTRIS; SURVIVAL; TAIGA; UNITED STATES; WINTER;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; FEMALE; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTANA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RANIDAE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; RANA LUTEIVENTRIS;

EID: 77952729401     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0912945107     Document Type: Article

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