Coqui frog populations are negatively affected by canopy opening but not detritus deposition following an experimental hurricane in a tropical rainforest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 332, Issue , 2014, Pages 118-123

  Klawinski, Paul D ^a   Dalton, Ben ^a,c   Shiels, Aaron B ^b,d  

^a WILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO RIO PIEDRAS   (Puerto Rico)

^c MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Detritus addition; Eleutherodactylus coqui; Forest canopy gap; Frog density dynamics; Hurricane disturbance; Tropical rainforest windstorm

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS; DEPOSITION; FLOORS; HURRICANES; STORMS; TROPICS;

CANOPY DISTURBANCE; DETRITUS ADDITION; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS COQUI; FOREST CANOPIES; INTERACTIVE EFFECT; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL SCALE; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; VERTEBRATE SPECIES;

FORESTRY;

DETRITUS; DISTURBANCE; FOREST CANOPY; FROG; HURRICANE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAINFOREST;

FOREST CANOPY; FOREST LITTER; MOISTURE;

LUQUILLO EXPERIMENTAL FOREST; PUERTO RICO;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS COQUI; HEXAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84918768416     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.02.010     Document Type: Article

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