Research into Frog Declines
Staff and students at James Cook University are involved in a large project looking at declines in frogs.
This project is investigating frog numbers, ecology and disease (chytrid) infections.
Frog Survey Papers
Bridges, A. S., and M. E. Dorcas. 2000. Temporal variation in anuran calling behavior: Implications for surveys and monitoring programs. Copeia: 587-592.
Crouch, W. B., and P. W. C. Paton. 2002. Assessing the use of call surveys to monitor breeding anurans in Rhode Island. Journal of Herpetology 36:185-192.
de Solla, S. R., K. J. Fernie, G. C. Barrett, and C. A. Bishop. 2006. Population trends and calling phenology of anuran populations surveyed in Ontario estimated using acoustic surveys. Biodiversity and Conservation 15:3481-3497.
de Solla, S. R., L. J. Shirose, K. J. Fernie, G. C. Barrett, C. S. Brousseau, and C. A. Bishop. 2005. Effect of sampling effort and species detectability on volunteer based anuran monitoring programs. Biological Conservation 121:585-594.
Fogarty, J. H., and F. J. Vilella. 2001. Evaluating methodologies to survey Eleutherodactylus frogs in montane forests of Puerto Rico. Wildlife Society Bulletin 29:948-955.
Genet, K. S., and L. G. Sargent. 2003. Evaluation of methods and data quality from a volunteer-hased amphihian call survey. Wildlife Society Bulletin 31:703-714.
Heard, G. W., P. Robertson, and M. P. Scroggie. 2006. Assessing detection probabilities for the endangered growling grass frog (Litoria raniformis) in southern Victoria. Wildlife Research 33:557-564.
Hsu, M. Y., Y. C. Kam, and G. M. Fellers. 2005. Effectiveness of amphibian monitoring techniques in a Taiwanese subtropical forest. Herpetological Journal 15:73-79.
Parris, K. M. 2004. Environmental and spatial variables influence the composition of frog assemblages in sub-tropical eastern Australia. Ecography 27:392-400.
Royle, J. A., and W. A. Link. 2005. A general class of multinomial mixture models for anuran calling survey data. Ecology 86:2505-2512.
Slatyer, C., D. Rosauer, and F. Lemckert. 2007. An assessment of endemism and species richness patterns in the Australian Anura. Journal of Biogeography 34:583-596.
Van Buskirk, J. 2005. Local and landscape influence on amphibian occurrence and abundance. Ecology 86:1936-1947.
Weir, L. A., J. A. Royle, P. Nanjappa, and R. E. Jung. 2005. Modeling anuran detection and site occupancy on north American amphibian monitoring program (NAAMP) routes in Maryland. Journal of Herpetology 39:627-639.