Assessing long-term population trends of wood frogs using egg-mass counts

Journal of Herpetology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 23-27

  Raithel, Christopher J ^a   Paton, Peter W C ^b   Pooler, Penelope S ^c   Golet, Francis C ^b  

^a RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^c NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANURA; LITHOBATES; RANA SYLVATICA;

EID: 79952917993     PISSN: 00221511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1670/09-188.1     Document Type: Article

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