Introduction pathway and climate trump ecology and life history as predictors of establishment success in alien frogs and toads

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1437-1445

  Rago, Alfredo ^a   While, Geoffrey M ^a   Uller, Tobias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Colonization; Extinction; Invasion; Life history; Range expansion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886265136     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.261     Document Type: Article

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