The ecological impact of invasive cane toads on tropical snakes: Field data do not support laboratory-based predictions

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 422-431

  Brown, Gregory P ^a   Phillips, Benjamin L ^a   Shine, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alien species; Australia; Biological invasion; Bufo marinus; Bufotoxins; Cane toad; Predator prey; Rhinella marina; Time series analysis; Tropical snakes

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LIZARD; MORTALITY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SNAKE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TOAD; TOXIN; VULNERABILITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SNAKE; TIME; TOAD;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BUFONIDAE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SNAKES; TIME FACTORS;

AUSTRALIA;

ACANTHOPHIS ANTARCTICUS; ACANTHOPHIS PRAELONGUS; ANTARESIA CHILDRENI; ANURA; BUFO MARINUS; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA; VARANIDAE;

EID: 79955531149     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-0536.1     Document Type: Article

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