A comparison of techniques for sampling amphibians in the forests of south-east Queensland, Australia

Herpetologica

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 271-283

  Parris, Kirsten M ^a   Norton, Tony W ^b   Cunningham, Ross B ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Australia; Forests; Frogs; Monitoring; Sampling techniques; Survey

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; SAMPLING;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0032844141     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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