Evaluating the Effects of Anthropogenic Stressors on Source-Sink Dynamics in Pond-Breeding Amphibians

Conservation Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 595-604

  Willson, John D ^a   Hopkins, William A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bufo americanus; Dispersal; Landscape ecology; Mercury; Metapopulations; Pollution; Population modeling; Stochasticity

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; MERCURY;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BREEDING POPULATION; DISPERSAL; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METAPOPULATION; PERSISTENCE; POND; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; STOCHASTICITY; SUBPOPULATION; TIMESCALE; TOAD; WATER POLLUTION; WETLAND;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; ARTICLE; BUFONIDAE; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER POLLUTANT; WETLAND;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BUFONIDAE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FRESH WATER; MERCURY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WETLANDS;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BUFO; BUFO AMERICANUS;

EID: 84878130782     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12044     Document Type: Article

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