Endemic Indirana frogs of the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 257-286

  Nair, Abhilash ^a   Gopalan, Sujith V ^b   George, Sanil ^b   Kumar, K Santhosh ^b   Teacher, Amber G F ^a,c   Merilä, Juha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b RAJIV GANDHI CENTRE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FIELD SURVEY; FROG; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HOT SPOT; LIFE HISTORY; LITERATURE REVIEW; MORPHOLOGY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; TAXONOMY;

INDIA; WESTERN GHATS;

ANURA; INDIRANA;

EID: 84869187183     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5735/086.049.0501     Document Type: Article

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