Enigmatic Faunal Declines at La Selva, Costa Rica: Patterns and Processes in a Collapsing Neotropical Herpetofauna
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Summary
The Central American environment is described in order to describe patterns of amphibian species richness and patterns of endemism in the context of ecological associations and biogeographic patterns.
- Type
- dissertation
- Published
- 2011-05-20
- Cited by
- 2
- References
- 19
- Access
- Open access
- OpenAlex
- https://openalex.org/W1506294077
- Semantic Scholar
- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:140587248
Keywords
Amphibian, Chytridiomycosis, Ecology, Biodiversity, Biology
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