Early assessment of the impact of alien species: Differential consequences of an invasive crayfish on adult and larval amphibians

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1141-1151

  Francesco Ficetola, Gentile ^a   Siesa, Matteo E ^b   Manenti, Raoul ^b   Bottoni, Luciana ^a   De Bernardi, Fiorenza ^b   Padoa Schioppa, Emilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amphibian decline; Biological invasions; Breeding habitat; Breeding success; Landscape composition; Procambarus clarkii; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AMPHIBIAN; ASSESSMENT METHOD; AUTOCORRELATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRAYFISH; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; INVASIVE SPECIES; LANDSCAPE; LARVA; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; METAMORPHOSIS; NATIVE SPECIES; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SURVEY; WETLAND;

ITALY;

AMPHIBIA; ASTACOIDEA; HYLA INTERMEDIA; PROCAMBARUS CLARKII; SALAMANDRIDAE;

EID: 80054101665     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00797.x     Document Type: Article

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