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Local-scale Seasonality Shapes Anuran Community Abundance in a Cloud Forest of the Tropical Andes
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- 1. Fundación para la Conservación de la Biodiversidad, Puerto Ayacucho, Amazonas, Venezuela. *Correspondence: E-mail: villautana@gmail.com
- 2. Thünen Institute of Biodiversity, Braunschweig, Germany. *Correspondence: E-mail: antonio.perez@thuenen.de
- 3. Laboratorio de Ecología Sensorial, Centro Multidisciplinario de Ciencias, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Mérida, Venezuela
- 4. Laboratorio de Biología Evolutiva, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- 5. Instituto de Ciencias, Ambientales y Ecológicas, Universidad de Los Andes, 5101, Mérida, Venezuela
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Villa, Pedro M., Pérez-Sánchez, Antonio J., Nava, Francisco, Acevedo, Aldemar, Cadenas, Diego A. (2019): Local-scale Seasonality Shapes Anuran Community Abundance in a Cloud Forest of the Tropical Andes. Zoological Studies 58 (17): 1-12, DOI: 10.6620/ZS.2019.58-17, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12821453
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