Bibliography of Australian Frog Declines

(includes only papers, articles and reports in the public arena. Unpublished reports are not included).

• Couper, P.J. 1993. Hope for our missing frogs. Wildlife Australia 29: 11-12.
• Covacevich, J. A. and McDonald, K.R. 1993. Distribution and conservation of frogs and reptiles of Queensland rainforests. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 34: 189-99.
• Czechura, G.V. 1991. The Blackall-Conondale Ranges: frogs, reptiles and fauna conservation. p. 311-24 in Werren, G.L. and Kershaw, P. (eds) The Rainforest Legacy, Vol. 2. AGPS, Canberra.
• Czechura, G.V. 1991. The twilight zone. Wildlife Australia. 28: 20-22.
• Czechura, G. V. and Ingram, G. J. 1990. Taudactylus diurnus and the case of the disappearing frogs. Mem. Qld Mus. 29: 361-365.
• Ferraro, T.J. and Burgin, S. 1993. Amphibian Decline: A case study in western Sydney p. 197-204 in Lunney, D. and Ayers, D. (eds) Herpetology in Australia: A diverse discipline. Royal Zoological Society of NSW, Mosman.
• Hero, J-M. 1991. A froggy forecast. Wildlife Australia. 28: 14-15.
• Ingram, G.J. 1990. The mystery of the disappearing frog. Wildlife Australia. 27: 6-7.
• Ingram, G.J. 1991. The earliest record of the ?extinct Platypus Frog. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 30: 454.
• Ingram, G.J. 1991. Whose "bio-diversity" do you want to save? Wildlife Australia. 28: 6-7.
• Ingram, G.J. 1993. From the President's desk: Queensland's disappearing frogs. WPSQ News. 130: 3.
• Ingram, G.J. and McDonald, K.R. 1993. An update on the decline of Queensland's frogs p. 297-303 in Lunney, D. and Ayers, D. (eds) Herpetology in Australia: A diverse discipline. Royal Zoological Society of NSW, Mosman.
• Mahoney, M. 1993. The status of frogs in the Watagan Mountains area, the central coast of New South Wales p. 257-64 in Lunney, D. and Ayers, D. (eds) Herpetology in Australia: A diverse discipline. Royal Zoological Society of NSW, Mosman.
• McDonald, K. R. 1990. Rheobatrachus Liem and Taudactylus Straughan & Lee (Anura: Leptodactylidae) in Eungella National Park, Queensland: distribution and decline. Trans. Roy. Soc. S. A. 114: 187-194.
• McDonald, K.R. 1992. Distribution patterns and conservation status of north Queensland rainforest frogs. Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage Conservation Technical Report 1: 1-51.
• McDonald, K.R., Covacevich, J.A., Ingram, G.J. and Couper, P.J. 1991. The status of frogs and reptiles Pp. 338-45 in Ingram, G.J. and Raven, R.J. (eds) An atlas of Queensland's frogs, reptiles, birds and mammals. Queensland Museum, Brisbane.
• McNellie, M. and J.-M. Hero. 1994. Mission Amphibian: the search for the missing rainforest frogs of Eungella. Wildlife Australia Magazine. Summer, 1994:22-23.
• Osborne, W.S. 1989. Distribution, relative abundance and conservation status of Corroboree frogs Pseudophryne corroboree Moore (Anura: Myobatrachidae). Australian Wildlife Research. 16: 537-47
• Osborne, W.S. 1990. Declining frog populations and extinctions in the Canberra region. Bogong. 11: 4-7.
• Osborne, W.S. 1991. The biology and management of the Corroboree Frog (Pseudophryne corroboree) in NSW. Species management report no. 8. NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service.
• Richards, S. J., K. R. McDonald, and R. A. Alford. 1993. Declines in populations of Australia's endemic tropical rainforest frogs. Pacific Conservation Biology 1: 66-77.
• Trenerry, M. P., Laurance, W. F. and McDonald, K. R. 1994. Further evidence for the precipitous decline of endemic rainforest frogs in tropical Australia. Pacific Conservation Biology 1: 150-153.
• Tyler, M.J. 1990. Declining amphibian populations: a global phenomenon? An Australian perspective. Alytes 9: 43-50.
• Tyler, M.J. 1991. Species at risk: our vanishing frogs. Habitat. 19: 20-25.
• Tyler, M.J. 1993. Frogwatch: to shun a silent spring. Australian Natural History. 24: 22-29.
• Watson, G.F., M.J. Littlejohn, J.-M. Hero and P. Robertson. 1991. Conservation status, ecology and management of the Spotted Tree Frog (Litoria spenceri). Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research - Technical Report Series (not refereed) Department of Conservation and Environment, Victoria. Report No. 116:40 pp.
• Werren, G.L. 1993. Conservation strategies for rare and threatened vertebrates of Australia's Wet Tropics Region. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 34: 229-41.

Prepared by: Geordie Torr and Stephen Richards, Dept. of Zoology, James Cook University, QLD 4811, Australia.

Geordie.Torr@jcu.edu.au, Stephen.Richards1@jcu.edu.au

Last updated: October, 1995.