Frog breeding in rain-fed wetlands after a period of severe drought: Implications for predicting the impacts of climate change

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 708, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 69-80

  Wassens, Skye ^a   Walcott, A ^a   Wilson, A ^a   Freire, R ^a  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Climate change; Drought; Rain fed wetlands; Tadpoles

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SITE; BURROWING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DROUGHT STRESS; FROG; GENERALIST; LONGEVITY; PREDICTION; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER QUALITY; WETLAND;

AUSTRALIA;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; CRINIA PARINSIGNIFERA; LIMNODYNASTES TASMANIENSIS; MYOBATRACHIDAE; NEOBATRACHUS SUDELLI;

EID: 84891491350     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-011-0955-2     Document Type: Article

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