Co-occurrence patterns of common and rare leaf-litter frogs, epiphytic ferns and dung beetles across a gradient of human disturbance

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Oldekop, Johan A ^a,e   Bebbington, Anthony J ^a,b   Truelove, Nathan K ^a   Tysklind, Niklas ^c   Villamarín, Santiago ^d   Preziosi, Richard F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d MUSEO ECUATORIANO DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Ecuador)

^e WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANURA; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CANOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIPHYTE; FERN; INDICATOR ORGANISM; LEAF LITTER; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; RARE SPECIES; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXON; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; ECUADOR; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BEETLES; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEMOGRAPHY; ECUADOR; FERNS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84862176891     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038922     Document Type: Article

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