Designing a diet for captive native frogs from the analysis of stomach contents from free-ranging Leiopelma

New Zealand Journal of Zoology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 47-56

  Shaw, S D ^a,b   Skerratt, L F ^b   Kleinpaste, R ^a   Daglish, L ^c   Bishop, P J ^d  

^a New Zealand Centre for Conservation Medicine   (New Zealand)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Coromandel peninsula; Diet; hunua range; Leiopelma archeyi; Leiopelma hochstetteri; Maungatautari; Metabolic bone disease; Moehau range; New zealand; Pitfall traps; Stomach contents

Indexed keywords

BYCATCH; DIET; DISEASE CONTROL; FROG; INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT; INVERTEBRATE; NATIVE SPECIES; PITFALL TRAP; PREY SIZE; RANGE SIZE; STOMACH CONTENT;

COROMANDEL PENINSULA; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; WAIKATO;

ACARI; AMPHIBIA; AMPHIPODA; ANURA; COLLEMBOLA; FORMICIDAE; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; ISOPODA; LEIOPELMA; LEIOPELMA ARCHEYI; LEIOPELMA HOCHSTETTERI; VESPOIDEA;

EID: 84859568895     PISSN: 03014223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03014223.2011.619989     Document Type: Article

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