ALCOA FROG WATCH

A Programme of the Western Australian Museum supported by Alcoa World Alumina

Alcoa Frog Watch Research Project: Native Kimberley Frog Communities

Team: Paul Doughty (Alcoa Frog Watch, Curator of Herpetology, WA Museum), Dale Roberts (University of Western Australia) & David Pearson (Conservation & Land Management)

The arrival of the cane toad in WA's Kimberley region will likely change the native frog communities there forever. However, there are several years before the cane toad arrives to study the structure of native frog communities and to establish quantitative estimates of composition and abundance to determine cane toad impacts.

Alcoa Frog Watch has provided funding for 3 years which will cover field expenses for several trips a year to work the sealed roads in the east Kimberley, carry out tadpole rearing, support student projects plus a few collecting expeditions to more remote regions.

We see our role among the other cane toad task force teams as the native frog research group. Our research is primarily aimed at understanding the basic biology of Kimberley frogs - community structure, breeding biology and larval ecology.

We are thankful to Alcoa World Alumina for sponsoring the project and to DEC-Kununurra for supporting the team in the east Kimberley.



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