Two hundred and ten years looking for the giant burrowing frog

Australian Zoologist

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 597-604

  Penman, Trent ^a   Lemckert, Francis ^b   Mahony, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b State Forests of New South Wales   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Conservation; Heleioporus; Management; Review

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; FROG; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LEGISLATION; MORPHOLOGY; POLLUTANT; SURVIVAL; VULNERABILITY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; HELEIOPORUS; HELEIOPORUS AUSTRALIACUS; PHILORIA KUNDAGUNGAN;

EID: 33645137922     PISSN: 00672238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7882/AZ.2004.005     Document Type: Article

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