Quantitative evidence for the effects of multiple drivers on continental-scale amphibian declines

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Grant, Evan H Campbell ^a   Miller, David A W ^b   Schmidt, Benedikt R ^c,d   Adams, Michael J ^e   Amburgey, Staci M ^b   Chambert, Thierry ^a,b   Cruickshank, Sam S ^c   Fisher, Robert N ^f   Green, David M ^g   Hossack, Blake R ^f   Johnson, Pieter T J ^h   Joseph, Maxwell B ^h   Rittenhouse, Tracy A G ⁱ   Ryan, Maureen E ^j   Waddle, J Hardin ^f   Walls, Susan C ^f   Bailey, Larissa L ^k   Fellers, Gary M ^f   Gorman, Thomas A ^l   Ray, Andrew M ^m   Pilliod, David S ⁿ   Price, Steven J ^o   Saenz, Daniel ^p   Sadinski, Walt ^q   Muths, Erin ^r   more..

^a PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d KARCH Switzerland   (Switzerland)

^e FOREST AND RANGELAND ECOSYSTEM SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^f U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^g MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^k Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^l VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

ⁿ FOREST AND RANGELAND ECOSYSTEM SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^p USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^q UPPER MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^r FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; DRIVER; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; METAPOPULATION; NORTH AMERICA; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SPECIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EUROPE; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84971321287     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep25625     Document Type: Article

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