Slipping through the Cracks: Rubber Plantation Is Unsuitable Breeding Habitat for Frogs in Xishuangbanna, China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Behm, Jocelyn E ^a,b,c   Yang, Xiaodong ^a   Chen, Jin ^a  

^a KEY LABORATORY OF TROPICAL FOREST ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANURA; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CANOPY; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; GROWTH; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT USE; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; NATIVE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PLANTATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; RUBBER PLANTATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TADPOLE; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ANURA; BREEDING; CHINA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY; HEVEA; HUMANS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84883811655     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073688     Document Type: Article

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