Potential consequences of the coqui frog invasion in Hawaii

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 427-433

  Beard, Karen H ^a   Pitt, William C ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthropods; Biological invasions; Eleutherodactylus coqui; Hawaiian Islands; Introduced mammals; Native birds

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FROG; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; PREDATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANURA; ARTHROPODA; AVES; CARNIVORA; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS (GENUS); ELEUTHERODACTYLUS COQUI; INVERTEBRATA; ISOPTERA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 24944563284     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1366-9516.2005.00178.x     Document Type: Article

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