...Arthur White; Graham Pyke Translocations involving the endangered Green and Golden Bell Frog Litoria aurea have been under way in the Greater Sydney area since 1993. Case studies for four of these translocations are presented; the translocation sites being at Botany, Marrickville, Long Reef...

... summer wildfires, we used expert elicitation to analyse the traits of frogs that potentially influence fire sensitivity or resilience. Traits that were ranked high in terms of influencing fire sensitivity were range size, dominant adult habitat, reproductive mode, and relative abundance. While species...

...Matthew Mo Surveys of the impact of stem-boring insects were carried out across 14 Flooded Gum Eucalyptus grandis plantations in the New South Wales North Coast bioregion. This paper reports on novel observations made during this work of the Bleating Tree Frog Litoria dentata seeking refuge...

...A.W. White; G.H. Pyke Long-term refugia or “over-winter” habitats are often overlooked in habitat restoration for the endangered Green and Golden Bell frog Litoria aurea . Studies identifying the occupation of this habitat or materials suitable to re-create it are lacking. Vegetation mounds were...

...Ross Knowles; Karen Thumm; Michael Mahony; Harry Hines; David Newell; Michael Cunningham Several species of the Australo-Papuan genus Mixophyes (barred frogs) have declined markedly and are now considered threatened. During field investigations into the possible causes of declines, we observed...

...Ross Goldingay; Brendan Taylor Road impacts on Australian frogs are poorly documented. This limits our ability to predict which species may be vulnerable to impacts and to develop strategies for mitigating impacts. We conducted foot-based surveys for road-killed frogs along two 100-m sections...

...David Hunter; Graeme Gillespie A survey was conducted of the distribution and abundance of stream-breeding frogs within Kosciuszko National Park, with particular emphasis upon locating new populations of the endangered Spotted Tree Frog Litoria spenceri. Twenty-five streams were sampled within...

...Garry Webb The effectiveness of various pitfall trap designs and pitfall/drift fence systems for sampling small ground-dwelling lizards and frogs in the forests of southeastern Australia was examined. Pitfall/drift fence systems employing long drift fences were more effective than short or no-fence...

...A. W. White Public attention was aroused in 1989 to a world-wide phenomena involving the decline of frog species. Since then herpetologists around the world have begun to document the nature and scope of these declines. In Australia, two frog species ( Rheobatrachus silus and Taudactylus diurnis...

.... The appetite and mobility of captive frogs did not appear to be affected by insertion of PIT tags as evidenced by no significant change in their body weight. No mortality related to the tagging method was recorded. At present, 194 free-living Liforia aurea have been marked, with no adverse effects experienced...

... then are we really "saving" when we translocate them? Colgan, D., 1996. Electrophoretic variation in the Green and Golden Bell Frog Litoria aurea. Aust. Zool. 30(2): 170-76. Electrophoretic variation in the Green and Golden Bell Frog Litoria aurea Aust. Zool. 30 170 76 Dodd, C. K...

...Michael Mahony The Green and Golden Bell Frog Litoria aurea has undergone a reduction in range and significant population declines during the past 15 years. In this paper the decline is viewed from the perspective of declines and disappearances of other species of frog along the east coast...

... this behaviour in just 13 frog species globally from eight genera, including four Australo-Papuan hylid frogs from the genus Litoria namely: L. nannotis, L. rheocola, L. genimaculata (now L. serrata [Richards et al. 2010]) and L. fallax. Visual displays in these species of Litoria include leg-flicking as well...

... particularly poorly serviced by available information for the Gulf region, and this is a function of their activity period. Frogs are best studied during and soon after periods of heavy rain (i.e. the wet season), when breeding activity (including calling) is at its peak. This is particularly so for burrowing...

...Danial Stratford; Gordon Grigg; Hamish McCallum; Harry Hines The breeding ecology and phenology of two sympatric stream breeding myobatrachid frogs were studied across a breeding season in a stream at Cunningham's Gap, south-east Queensland. Mixophyes fleayi is listed as endangered and M...

...C. Threlfall; D. Jolley; N. Evershed; R. Goldingay; W. Buttemer The Green and Golden Bell frog Litoria aurea is in major decline in Australia, where its distribution is now confined mainly to the east coast of New South Wales (NSW). Infection by the newly emerged amphibian fungal pathogen...

...Arthur White; Graham Pyke Surveys carried out between 1990 and 1995 of almost all known historic locations within New South Wales (including the ACT) for the Green and Golden Bell Frog Litoria aurea revealed that the species had suffered a dramatic decline in distribution and abundance...

...Will Osborne; Sam Patmore; David Hunter; Rod Pietsch The Green and Golden Bell Frog Litoria aurea disappeared from the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales in the early 1980's and despite many years of opportunistic survey, it was not until 1999 that it was rediscovered near the Upper Molonglo...