Recovery of amphibian and reptile assemblages during old-field succession of tropical rain forests

Biotropica

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 377-388

  Hernández Ordóñez, Omar ^a,b   Urbina Cardona, Nicolas ^c   Martínez Ramos, Miguel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ECOSISTEMAS Y SUSTENTABILIDAD   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Chronosequence; Conservation; Herpetofauna; Mexico; Secondary succession

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DISPERSAL; DOMINANCE; OIL FIELD; RAINFOREST; REPTILE; SUCCESSION; TROPICAL FOREST;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

AMPHIBIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84928391518     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/btp.12207     Document Type: Article

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