The Population Decline and Extinction of Darwin's Frogs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Soto Azat, Claudio ^a,b   Valenzuela Sánchez, Andrés ^a   Collen, Ben ^c   Rowcliffe, J Marcus ^b   Veloso, Alberto ^d   Cunningham, Andrew A ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD ANDRÉS BELLO   (Chile)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANURA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EUROPE; EXTANT SPECIES; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RHINODERMA DARWINII; RHINODERMA RUFUM; SOUTH AMERICA; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES HABITAT;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; ANURA; ARGENTINA; CHILE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANURA; RHINODERMA; RHINODERMA DARWINII;

EID: 84878910756     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066957     Document Type: Article

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