Do frogs bounce, and if so, by how much? Responses to the 'Big Wet' following the 'Big Dry' in south-eastern Australia

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 223-234

  Mac Nally, Ralph ^a   Nerenberg, Shana ^a   Thomson, James R ^a   Lada, Hania ^a   Clarke, Rohan H ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anura; Climate change; Climate variability; Extreme events; Murray Darling Basin; Resilience; Resistance

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; EXTREME EVENT; FROG; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AUSTRALIA; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA;

EID: 84891481409     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12104     Document Type: Article

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