Stormwater wetlands can function as ecological traps for urban frogs

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We thank M. Arcus, T. Brown, S. Bui, S. Flavell, M. Ioannides, L. Wittick, and H. Wootton for assisting with laboratory and fieldwork and Rhys Coleman and four anonymous reviewers for feedback on the manuscript. We also thank the Centre for Aquatic Pollution Identification and Management (CAPIM) for access to their databases. Research was funded by the Australian Research Council (LP140100343), the Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment, Melbourne Water, and the Nature Conservancy and was supported in part by the Clean Air and Urban Landscapes Hub of the Australian Government's National Environmental Science Program. Research was approved by the University of Melbourne animal ethics committee (1513577.1) and collections were conducted under a DELWP research permit (10007589).