Amphibian Conservation in Human Shaped Environments: Landscape Dynamics, Habitat Modeling and Metapopulation Analyses
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v Résumé vii Riassunto ix Chapter 1 – Introduction 1 Biodiversity decline 1 A changing landscape due to human actions 2 Why are amphibians so threatened with extinction? 10 The effect of ponds and landscape characteristics on amphibian distribution 11 Metapopulation structure and inter-patch distance 15 Statistical tools 16
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تاریخ انتشار 2006