Fine-Scale Habitat Associations of a Terrestrial Salamander: The Role of Environmental Gradients and Implications for Population Dynamics

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Peterman, William E ^a   Semlitsch, Raymond D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANOPY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; JUVENILE ANIMAL; LANDSCAPE; MALE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCTION; SALAMANDER; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES HABITAT; SUN EXPOSURE; SURFACE SOIL; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMIDITY; MALE; MISSOURI; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OVIPARITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE; URODELA;

PLETHODON ALBAGULA; PLETHODONTIDAE; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 84877091859     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062184     Document Type: Article

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