Differential responses of two anuran species breeding in rice fields to landscape composition and spatial scale

Wetlands

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1171-1179

  Kato, Noriyuki ^a   Yoshio, Masanobu ^a   Kobayashi, Raita ^a   Miyashita, Tadashi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Forest cover; Habitat suitability; Landscape structure; Restoration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897582762     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: 19436246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13157-010-0103-1     Document Type: Article

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