Amphibia

Read more about the article Where did the invasive Guttural Toads come from?
2019 / News

Where did the invasive Guttural Toads come from?

Guttural toads (Sclerophrys gutturalis) have been invasive in Mauritius and Reunion for nearly 100 years (since ~1922), and have been in Constantia (near Cape Town) for another 20 years, but where did those colonising toads come from?

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7 October 2019
Read more about the article Mind the tadpoles: No survival of native larval frogs in the presence of invasive Indian bullfrog tadpoles
C·I·B Post-doctoral fellow Nitya Prakash Mohanty at his mesocosm experiment in which he examines the competitive and predation effects of bullfrog tadpoles on native tadpoles’ survival, growth, and time to metamorphosis. (Photo credit: Chetana P.)
2019 / News

Mind the tadpoles: No survival of native larval frogs in the presence of invasive Indian bullfrog tadpoles

Tadpoles of endemic frog species on the Andaman archipelago (1200 km east of the Indian mainland) do not survive high levels of predation by invasive Indian bullfrogs larvae...

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10 May 2019
Read more about the article Can public surveys be effectively used to reconstruct biological invasions?
The Indian bullfrog (Hoplobatrachus tigerinus) (Photo credit: Harikrishnan S.)
2018 / News

Can public surveys be effectively used to reconstruct biological invasions?

Public surveys can be combined with field surveys to reconstruct invasions, finds a new study by C·I·B researchers Nitya Prakash Mohanty (PhD student) and John Measey (Core Team Member).

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2 October 2018