Recovery of amphibian species richness and composition in a chronosequence of secondary forests, northeastern Costa Rica

Biological Conservation

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 170-176

  Hilje, Branko ^a,b   Mitchell Aide, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO RIO PIEDRAS   (Puerto Rico)

^b Asociación para la Conservación y el Estudio de la Biodiversidad ACEBIO   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Amphibian recovery; Costa Rica; Forest recovery; Landscape; Leaf litter frogs; Microhabitat; Secondary forests

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; AMPHIBIAN; BIOMASS; CHRONOSEQUENCE; COLONIZATION; GENE FLOW; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LEAF LITTER; MICROHABITAT; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; PASTURE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REGENERATION; SECONDARY FOREST; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL REGION;

BRAZIL; COSTA RICA;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA;

EID: 84857448730     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.12.007     Document Type: Article

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