Farmed Areas Predict the Distribution of Amphibian Ponds in a Traditional Rural Landscape

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Hartel, Tibor ^a,b,c   von Wehrden, Henrik ^a,d  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^b SAPIENTIA HUNGARIAN UNIVERSITY OF TRANSYLVANIA   (Romania)

^c OVIDIUS UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^d Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURE; AMPHIBIA; ANURA; ARTICLE; BUFFALO; BUFO BUFO; CATTLE; DRINKING; EASTERN EUROPE; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; LIVESTOCK; NONHUMAN; POND; POPULATION DENSITY; RURAL AREA; SCRUB; VEGETATION;

AGRICULTURE; AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; EUROPE, EASTERN; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PONDS;

EID: 84877967144     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063649     Document Type: Article

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