Toad's tongue for breakfast: Exploitation of a novel prey type, the invasive cane toad, by scavenging raptors in tropical Australia

Biological Invasions

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1447-1455

  Beckmann, Christa ^a   Shine, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bufotoxin; Chaunus marinus; Frog; Invasive species; Rhinella marina; Road kill

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; INVASIVE SPECIES; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; PREDATOR; PREY AVAILABILITY; PREY SELECTION; RAPTOR; ROADKILL; SCAVENGING (FEEDING); SEASONALITY; TOAD; TOXIN; TROPICAL REGION;

AUSTRALIA; DARWIN; NORTHERN TERRITORY;

ACCIPITRIDAE; ALLIGATOR; ANURA; AVES; BUFO MARINUS; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); METATHERIA; MILVUS; RAPTORES; SQUAMATA;

EID: 79956034332     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-010-9903-8     Document Type: Article

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