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Introduction: Breeding-site fidelity can occur at various spatial scales and can vary in strength across these scales. Understanding this variation, and rules governing individual site-fidelity decisions, can have important implications for the conservation and management of threatened species. Globally, amphibians are in rapid decline and breeding-site fidelity appears to be widespread, yet few studies have investigated patterns of lifetime breeding-site fidelity, and no studies have explored decision-making rules in situ. Methods: We investigated lifetime patterns of breeding site fidelity in the brown toadlet Pseudophryne bibronii, a species displaying population declines and local extinction throughout its range. We monitored a single population for a period spanning 10 years to establish the extent that males express site fidelity at the scale of the breeding site and the breeding patch. We also examined male nest-site fidelity between breeding years in relation to mating success ....

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