Detecting Frogs as Prey in the Diets of Introduced Mammals

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Detecting Frogs as Prey in the Diets of Introduced Mammals

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Amphibians are currently the most threatened group of vertebrates, with an estimated 40 % of amphibian species currently in danger of extinction. The global spread of introduced fauna has been accepted as a major factor in the decline of amphibians, as native amphibians often have little or no evolutionary history with introduced predators. In particular, introduced small mammals such as rodents pose a major threat, as they are generalist predators that together have an almost global distribu...

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Research paper

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Scholarly text / Thesis

Thesis level

Doctoral

Date created

2014

Creator

Egeter, Bastian

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10523/4688

Related subjects

Leiopelma / amphibian / frog / scatology / New Zealand / Litoria / dna / diet / morphological / prey / bones / dna-based / rodent / mammal / molecular / half-life / predation / detectability / rate / impact / ingestion / hochstetter / archey / hochstetteri / archeyi / raniformis / introduced / invasive

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