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The Disappearing Natterjack

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Keith F. Corbett  and
Trevor J. C. Beebee
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The natterjack toad is decreasing rapidly in Britain. This is particularly true of its largest population on the dunes of south-west Lancashire, where developments in the form of houses, roads and a holiday camp have deprived it of habitat. Even more serious, say the authors, who have made a survey of this toad in Britain for WWF, is the drying out of the dune slacks, the freshwater pools where the natterjacks breed, as a result of the lowering of the water table by drainage and abstraction. The artificial substitutes provided so far are not adqeuate and the authors urge the need to create large and suitable breeding pools for the toads.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , April 1975 , pp. 47 - 49
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1975

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