Where are the survivors? Tracking relictual populations of endangered frogs in Costa Rica

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 204-212

  García Rodríguez, Adrián ^a   Chaves, Gerardo ^a   Benavides Varela, Catalina ^a   Puschendorf, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amphibian declines; Costa Rica; Maxent; Relictual populations; Species distribution modelling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FROG; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ANALYSIS; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION MODELING; PROTECTED AREA; RANGE SIZE; REFUGIUM; RELICT COMMUNITY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; SURVIVAL;

COSTA RICA;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS;

EID: 84855509606     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00862.x     Document Type: Article

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