Impacts from Invasive Reptiles and Amphibians

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 46, Issue , 2015, Pages 75-97

  Kraus, Fred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Alien species; Competition; Disease; Genetics; Hybridization; Predation; Trophic relations

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); GENETIC VARIATION; HERPETOFAUNA; HYBRIDIZATION; INTROGRESSION; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATURAL SELECTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PREDATION; REPTILE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

AMPHIBIA; REPTILIA;

EID: 84948975446     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-112414-054450     Document Type: Article

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