Population monitoring of the vulnerable wallum sedge frog (Litoria olongburensis) in north-eastern New South Wales

Australian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 185-194

  Lewis, B D ^a   Goldingay, R L ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FROG; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAINFALL;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NEW SOUTH WALES; WORLD;

ANURA; LITORIA; LITORIA OLONGBURENSIS; MYOBATRACHIDAE;

EID: 23044434398     PISSN: 0004959X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/ZO03063     Document Type: Article

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