Enhancing frog species richness at continental scales through farm dam management

Autor: Martino E. Malerba, Jodi Rowley, Peter Macreadie, James Frazer, Nicholas Wright, Nayyar Zaidi, Asef Nazari, Dhananjay Thiruvady, Don Driscoll
Rok vydání: 2023
DOI: 10.22541/au.168016694.49331642/v1
Popis: Artificial waterbodies can help tackle the ongoing freshwater biodiversity crisis by providing new habitat for aquatic wildlife. Farm dams are among the most abundant artificial waterbodies in agricultural landscapes, yet general guidelines for maximising their ecological potential are yet to emerge. Here we used a continental-scale dataset of frog species near 8,800 Australian farm dams to ask: What characteristics promote higher frog species richness at farm dams? The highest values of species richness were at older (>20 years) farm dams of intermediate sizes (0.1 ha in surface area), with smaller rainfall catchments (
Databáze: OpenAIRE