Similar Local and Landscape Processes Affect Both a Common and a Rare Newt Species

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Denoël, Mathieu ^a   Perez, Amélie ^a   Cornet, Yves ^a   Ficetola, Gentile Francesco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; BREEDING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EUROPE; HABITAT; LANDSCAPE; LISSOTRITON VULGARIS; NONHUMAN; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; TRITURUS CRISTATUS; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POND; SALAMANDRIDAE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRENDS;

SALAMANDRIDAE; TRITURUS CRISTATUS; TRITURUS VULGARIS;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EUROPE; FEMALE; MALE; PONDS; SALAMANDRIDAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84877056806     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062727     Document Type: Article

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