Land Use Explains the Distribution of Threatened New World Amphibians Better than Climate

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Brum, Fernanda Thiesen ^a   Gonçalves, Larissa Oliveira ^a   Cappelatti, Laura ^a   Carlucci, Marcos Bergmann ^a   Debastiani, Vanderlei Júlio ^a   Salengue, Elisa Viana ^a   dos Santos Seger, Guilherme Dubal ^a   Both, Camila ^b   Bernardo Silva, Jorge Sebastião ^a   Loyola, Rafael Dias ^c   da Silva Duarte, Leandro ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; LAND USE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES ENDEMICITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AMPHIBIA;

AGRICULTURE; AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

EID: 84876160917     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060742     Document Type: Article

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