Cane Toads on Cowpats: Commercial Livestock Production Facilitates Toad Invasion in Tropical Australia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  González Bernal, Edna ^a   Greenlees, Matthew ^a   Brown, Gregory P ^a   Shine, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANURA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BODY TEMPERATURE; CANE TOAD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COWPAT; FECES; FEEDING; GRAZING; LIVESTOCK; NONHUMAN; SEASON; SOIL; SPECIES INVASION;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BEETLES; BODY TEMPERATURE; BUFO MARINUS; CATTLE; ECOSYSTEM; FECES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INTRODUCED SPECIES; POPULATION DENSITY; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

ANURA; BUFO MARINUS; COLEOPTERA;

EID: 84868693863     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049351     Document Type: Article

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