Cross-scale interactions and the distribution-abundance relationship

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Werner, Earl E ^a   Davis, Christopher J ^a   Skelly, David K ^b   Relyea, Rick A ^c   Benard, Michael F ^d   McCauley, Shannon J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS SCALE INTERACTIONS; DISTRIBUTION ABUNDANCE RELATIONSHIP; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HABITAT QUALITY; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIP; LARVA; METAPOPULATION; NONHUMAN; POND; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; MICHIGAN; PONDS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84902157049     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097387     Document Type: Article

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