Excluding access to invasion hubs can contain the spread of an invasive vertebrate

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1720, 2011, Pages 2900-2908

  Florance, Daniel ^a   Webb, Jonathan K ^a   Dempster, Tim ^b   Kearney, Michael R ^b   Worthing, Alex ^a   Letnic, Mike ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arid; Artificial water; Biological invasion; Bufo marinus; Control strategy; Hydrological regime

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARID ENVIRONMENT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; COLONIZATION; CONNECTIVITY; DAM; DISPERSAL; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; INVASIBILITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; LANDSCAPE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; LIVESTOCK; RANGE EXPANSION; REFUGE; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SURFACE WATER; TOAD; WATER AVAILABILITY;

AUSTRALIA;

ANURA; BUFO MARINUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79960220291     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0032     Document Type: Article

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