Amphibian pond loss as a function of landscape change - A case study over three decades in an agricultural area of northern France

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1610-1618

  Curado, Nuno ^a   Hartel, Tibor ^a,b,c   Arntzen, Jan W ^a  

^a NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Mihai Eminescu Trust   (Romania)

^c OVIDIUS UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Agriculture practice; Amphibian breeding habitat; Conservation; Land development; Pond destruction; Spatial analysis; Temporal analysis

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; AMPHIBIAN; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ASTER; BREEDING SITE; DUNE; GRASSLAND; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MARSH; NATURE CONSERVATION; POND; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AMPHIBIA; BOS;

EID: 79956215325     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.02.011     Document Type: Article

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