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Uperoleia laevigata
About: Uperoleia laevigata is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3 publications have been published within this topic receiving 302 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the terrestrial and aquatic attributes of 70 farm dams and five semi-natural waterbodies in the upper Shoalhaven catchment, south-eastern Australia, were examined.
166 citations
TL;DR: Artificial pairing of males and females showed that this choice is adaptive as only females mating with males that were 64–80% of their body weight had most of their clutch fertilized.
143 citations
TL;DR: The dipteran parasite Batrachomyia strigapes was found in the ground frog assemblage associated with a large ephemeral wetland in Western Sydney and infection was shown to significantly reduce frog weight.
Abstract: To quantify the occurrence of the dipteran parasite Batrachomyia strigapes, the ground frog assemblage associated with a large ephemeral wetland in Western Sydney was sampled between January 1999 and April 2000. Parasite infection was restricted to Uperoleia laevigata (5.1%, n = 1,492). Parasites were found under the parotoid glands, most frequently on the left side. After correction for frog size, infection was shown to significantly reduce frog weight. Despite reduced individual fitness, because the level of infection was low in the population, it is unlikely to have a major effect on the anuran population under current environmental conditions.
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