Surface activity of arid-adapted frogs

Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 115-116

  Thompson, G G ^a   Thompson, S A ^a   Fraser, J L ^b  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abundance; Activity; Frogs; Neobatrachus sutoNeobatrachus sutor; Pseudophryne occidentalis

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; ARID ENVIRONMENT; FROG; PITFALL TRAP; RAINFALL;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; ISOPTERA; NEOBATRACHUS; NEOBATRACHUS SUTOR; PSEUDOPHRYNE; REPTILIA;

EID: 1142302243     PISSN: 0035922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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