Micro-habitat distribution drives patch quality for sub-tropical rocky plateau amphibians in the northern Western Ghats, India.
The importance of patch quality for amphibians is frequently overlooked in distribution models. Here we demonstrate that it is highly important for the persistence of endemic and endangered amphibians found in the threatened and fragile ecosystems that are the rocky plateaus in Western Maharashtra,...
Main Authors: | Christopher J Thorpe, Todd R Lewis, Siddharth Kulkarni, Aparna Watve, Nikhil Gaitonde, David Pryce, Lewis Davies, David T Bilton, Mairi E Knight |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2018-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5868820?pdf=render |
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