The impact of industrial fluoride fallout on faunal succession following sand-mining of dry sclerophyll forest at Tomago, NSW, II. Myobatrachid frog recolonization

Biological Conservation

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 137-146

  Letnic, Michael ^a   Fox, Barry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Disturbance; Fluoride; Frogs; Sand mining; Succession

Indexed keywords

ANURA; CRINIA; DYNASTES; MYOBATRACHIDAE;

EID: 0030837758     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(97)00029-3     Document Type: Article

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