ArticleEcology and evolution2015
The impact of invasive cane toads on native wildlife in southern Australia.
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- Choose your meals carefully if you need to coexist with a toxic invader.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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- The things they carried: The pathogenic effects of old and new parasites following the intercontinental invasion of the Australian cane toad (International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2017Review
- Using experimental de-worming to measure the immunological and pathological impacts of lungworm infection in cane toads.International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2017Article
- The impact of transportation and translocation on dispersal behaviour in the invasive cane toad.Oecologia · 2017Article
- The impact of invasive cane toads on native wildlife in southern Australia.Ecology and evolution · 2015Article
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Abstract
Commonly, invaders have different impacts in different places. The spread of cane toads (Rhinella marina: Bufonidae) has been devastating for native fauna in tropical Australia, but the toads' impact remains unstudied in temperate-zone Australia. We surveyed habitat characteristics and fauna in campgrounds along the central eastern coast of Australia, in eight sites that have been colonized by cane toads and another eight that have not. The presence of cane toads was associated with lower faunal abundance and species richness, and a difference in species composition. Populations of three species of large lizards (land mullets Bellatorias major, eastern water dragons Intellagama lesueurii, and lace monitors Varanus varius) and a snake (red-bellied blacksnake Pseudechis porphyriacus) were lower (by 84 to 100%) in areas with toads. The scarcity of scavenging lace monitors in toad-invaded areas translated into a 52% decrease in rates of carrion removal (based on camera traps at bait stations) and an increase (by 61%) in numbers of brush turkeys (Alectura lathami). The invasion of cane toads through temperate-zone Australia appears to have reduced populations of at least four anurophagous predators, facilitated other taxa, and decreased rates of scavenging. Our data identify a paradox: The impacts of cane toads are at least as devastating in southern Australia as in the tropics, yet we know far more about toad invasion in the sparsely populated wilderness areas of tropical Australia than in the densely populated southeastern seaboard.
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