These include companion animals (e.g., dogs, cats); spe-cies introduced as fur bearers, for sport or for aquaculture (e.g., mink, foxes, salmonid fish); those introduced for biological control purposes (e.g., predatory insects, cane toads, mustelids); and many that were simply ...
The article discusses the spread of the invasive cane toad across Australia. Topics include an overview of the author's visit with University of Sydney biologist Rick Shine, who is investigating the spread of cane toads, their...
One only needs to look at to look at times when biological control has gone wrong understand why research and planning is so important. The cane toad in Australia, for example, was originally introduced in the hope that it would eat the cane beetles that were destroying sugar cane fields. I...
An invasive species induces rapid adaptive change in a native predator: cane toads and black snakes in Australia. Proc. R. Soc. B 273, 1545–1550 (2006). 11. Didham, R. K., Tylianakis, J. M., Gemmell, N. J., Rand, T. A. & Ewers, R. M. Interactive effects of habitat ...
was originally introduced in the hope that it would eat the cane beetles that were destroying sugar cane fields. In Australia, overA$20m($14.6m) has been spent trying to control the spread of cane toads. Similarly, the European starling, which was initially introduced to North America...
INVASIVE CANE TOADSWREN MALURUS-CORONATUSMULTIPLE BENEFITSECOLOGICAL IMPACTBiological Invasions - Invasive species often have catastrophic direct effects on native species through increased competition and predation. Less well understood are indirect, cascading effects......
Boland CRJ (2004) Introduced cane toads Bufo marinus are active nest predators and competitors of rainbow bee-eaters Merops ornatus: observational and experimental evidence. Biological Conservation 120: 53-62.Boland CRJ (2004) Introduced cane toads Bufo marinus are active nest predators and ...
Cane toads are having a significant negative effect at the population level: at present, rainbow bee-eaters produce 0.8 fledglings per nest. However, in the absence of cane toads each nest would produce 1.2 fledglings. Rainbow bee-eaters had little defence against the cane toads. The diurnal ...
The cane toad Bufo marinus has been migrating westward across northern Australia since its introduction as a biological control agent in 1935. It has been implicated in the widespread decline of many native frog-eating predators. To investigate the impacts of this invasive species on native ...
Clearly, the spread of cane toads through tropical Australia can modify feeding responses of native aquatic predators. For predators capable of rapid avoidance learning, the primary impact of cane toads may be on foraging behaviour rather than mortality.DAVID...