Factors influencing persistence of a threatened amphibian in restored wetlands despite severe population decline during climate change driven weather extremes.

ABSTRACT: Biodiversity is in global decline during the Anthropocene. Declines have been caused by multiple factors, such as habitat removal, invasive species, and disease, which are often targets for conservation management. However, conservation interventions are under threat from climate change induced weather extremes. Weather extremes are becoming more frequent and devastating and an example of this was the 2019/2020 Australian drought and mega-fires. We provide a case study the impacts of these extreme weather events had on a population of the threatened frog Litoria aurea that occurs in a constructed habitat which was designed to reduce the impact of introduced fish and chytrid-induced disease. We aimed to determine what factors influenced persistence so that the design of wetlands can

SUBMITTER: Beranek CT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8893051 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature