Effects of Urbanization on Occupancy of Stream Salamanders;Efectos de la Urbanización sobre la Ocupación de Salamandras de Arroyo

Conservation Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 547-555

  Price, Steven J ^a,b   Cecala, Kristen K ^a,c   Browne, Robert A ^b   Dorcas, Michael E ^a  

^a DAVIDSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian decline; Before after control impact study; Desmognathus; Development; Dynamic occupancy model; Eurycea; Northern dusky salamander

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPHIBIAN; COLONIZATION; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE; PROBABILITY; STREAM; SURVIVAL; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBANIZATION;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; URBANIZATION;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; URBANIZATION; URODELA;

UNITED STATES;

AMPHIBIA; DESMOGNATHUS; DESMOGNATHUS FUSCUS; DESMOGNATHUS FUSCUS FUSCUS; EURYCEA; EURYCEA BISLINEATA; EURYCEA CIRRIGERA; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 79955853748     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01627.x     Document Type: Article

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