A toad more traveled: The heterogeneous invasion dynamics of cane toads in Australia

American Naturalist

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Urban, Mark C ^a   Phillips, Ben L ^b   Skelly, David K ^c   Shine, Richard ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersal evolution; Invasion biology; Niche expansion; Range models

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVITY; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; INVASIBILITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; MOVEMENT; NICHE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RANGE EXPANSION; REPRODUCTION; TOAD; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; TOAD;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BUFO MARINUS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

ANURA; BUFO MARINUS;

EID: 40549101347     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/527494     Document Type: Article

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