Quantitative evidence for global amphibian population declines

Nature - Tập 404 Số 6779 - Trang 752-755 - 2000
Jeff E. Houlahan1, C. Scott Findlay1, Benedikt R. Schmidt2, Andrea H. Meyer3, Sergius L. Kuzmin4
1Ottawa-Carleton Institute of Biology, University of Ottawa, 30 Marie Curie, Ottawa, K1N 6N5, Ontario, Canada
2Zoologisches Institut, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, Zürich, CH-8057 , Switzerland
3Swiss Federal Statistical Office, Sektion Hochschulen und Wissenschaft, Espace de l'Europe 10 , Neuchâtel, CH-2010, Switzerland
4Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences , Moscow, 117071, Russia

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