Frog community responses to recent American bullfrog invasions

Current Zoology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 83-92

  Li, Yiming ^a   Ke, Zhunwei ^a,b   Wang, Yihua ^a,b   Blackburn, Tim M ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

American bullfrog; Impact; Invader abundance; Native frog decline; Residence time

Indexed keywords

ANURA; ASTACOIDEA; LITHOBATES; PROCAMBARUS CLARKII; RANA CATESBEIANA;

EID: 78651463461     PISSN: 16745507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/czoolo/57.1.83     Document Type: Article

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