Rapid Increases and Time-Lagged Declines in Amphibian Occupancy after Wildfire

Conservation Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 219-228

  Hossack, Blake R ^a,b   Lowe, Winsor H ^c   Corn, Paul Stephen ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Colonization; Detection; Disturbance; Extinction; Fire severity; Isolation; Population dynamics

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; BREEDING POPULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EXTINCTION; HABITAT USE; ISOLATION EFFECT; POPULATION DECLINE; WETLAND; WILDFIRE;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FIRE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FIRES; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

GLACIER NATIONAL PARK [MONTANA]; MONTANA; UNITED STATES;

AMBYSTOMA; AMBYSTOMA MACRODACTYLUM; AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BOREAS; BUFO BOREAS BOREAS; RANA LUTEIVENTRIS; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 84872275718     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2012.01921.x     Document Type: Article

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