Sentences with phrase «of amphibians»

Out of the seven new species, five are facing considerable anthropogenic threats and require immediate conservation prioritization,» says Prof SD Biju, who led the new study and has also formally described over 80 new species of amphibians from India.

The controversial finding suggests that UV alone can not explain the widespread decline of amphibians in the region.

Declines in the frequency of mist days have been strongly associated with a decrease in population of amphibians (20 of 50 species) and probably also bird and reptile populations (Pounds et al., 1999).

The decline of amphibian populations, particularly frogs, is thought to suggest that Earth is currently undergoing a sixth mass extinction event.

There have already been significant global declines and even the extinctions of some amphibian species due to a similar species of fungus, called Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd).

In addition to the reptiles out basking in the sun, we found a long list of amphibians as well.

There are a large number of amphibian species in the world and some of the species most commonly kept as pets include the South American horned frogs, tiger salamanders, waxy monkey tree frog and the African clawed frog.

A new custom Bd genotyping assay using skin swabs The chytrid fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), affects hundreds of amphibian species around the world, yet many hundreds of species become infected yet are not... AmphibiaWeb

Last week's question: What were the first types of amphibians in space, and what year did it or they launch?

A group of amphibians find their way into a deserted mansion and decide to hold a party.

He talked about the «Amphibian Ark» project, which grew out of an amphibian conservation summit focused on the die - offs, in which samples of frogs from areas ahead of the approaching fungus were taken for safekeeping and breeding to zoos and aquariums — perhaps to be re-established in the wild at some point.

To find out, Martel and Pasmans conducted experiments on 35 species of amphibians from around the world.

The study confirmed that until we find a way to fight the fungus, the most actionable advice to date is to begin captive breeding, a move suggested in a seminal study of amphibian disappearance published in Science four years ago.

We have a high diversity of amphibians and other species that are going to struggle.»

Tuesday we talked about different kinds of amphibians and how to distinguish an amphibian from other critters.

A team of scientists with Spanish participants studied how heat waves affect the dietary choices of three species of amphibian found on the Iberian Peninsula: the European tree frog, the Mediterranean tree frog and the Iberian painted frog.

Glaw, who has been going to Madagascar to research its ever - expanding list of amphibians and reptiles for a quarter century, said that B. micra may represent the limit of miniaturization possible for a vertebrate with complex eyes, but said it's impossible to know for sure since each time scientists have proclaimed the discovery of the tiniest one yet, another, tinier species appears.

A Panamanian park has lost around 40 percent of its amphibian species in the past decade, with some dying out before biologists had even learned of their existence, according to research published July 19 in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science.

The moist skin of the amphibians limits them to habitats either near water or under some protection on moist ground, usually in a forest.

The authors of the Panama study say their findings offer hope for the survival of amphibians around the world.

Pounds» earliest research had correctly warned that the disappearance of amphibians at Monteverde was not just a natural cycle of boom and busts.

Despite having adapted to millions of years of climate change, in the 1980s this marvel of nature became one of the first casualties of the new wave of amphibian extinction.

Dr. Lips studies population biology and the community ecology of amphibians.

That's the stark message from the first global survey of amphibians, which has found they are under far greater threat of extinction than birds or mammals.

New species of amphibians continue to be described at a rate of about 2.9 species per week!

In 2000, Chicago Wilderness initiated a calling frog survey as part of its amphibian biodiversity recovery plan.

The research team found that when it increased levels of E-NTPDase2 in tadpole embryos that consisted of only eight cells, they could cause parts of the eye to form not only on the heads of the amphibians, but also in tissues in other parts of their bodies, including their tails.

Additional analyses found no evidence to support the hypothesis that climate change has been driving outbreaks of amphibian chytridiomycosis».19 Martha Crump, who had originally worked with Pounds analyzing the demise of the Golden Toad, now fully grasped the disease's devastating potential.

The outbreak of amphibian chytridiomycosis in Madagascar puts an additional seven per cent of the world's amphibian species at risk, according to figures from the Amphibian Survival Alliance (ASA).

Although habitat loss caused by human activity still constitutes the main threat to amphibian populations, habitat protection no longer provides any guarantee of amphibian survival.

Today is the 70th birthday of Elizabeth Hay, an embryologist at Harvard Medical School who, through pioneering studies on regeneration of amphibian limbs, has shed light on the cellular mechanisms that transform normal cells into tumors.

is the 71st birthday of Elizabeth Hay, an embryologist at Harvard Medical School who, through pioneering studies on regeneration of amphibian limbs, has shed light on the cellular mechanisms that transform normal cells into tumors.

The data revealed consistencies in most of the amphibians» tested personality traits.

Government officials in Australia's Northern Territory are convinced of the fungus threat; they have just enacted a ban on the import of amphibians into the state, which has been free of chytrids so far.

Even if researchers were to take a whole population of amphibians into the lab and cure them, they could still get reinfected when released back into the wild.

That would make them the closest living relative of the ancestor of all amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

The fungus probably arrived in Europe recently, and its presence in traded amphibians suggests that the intercontinental movement of amphibians explains its introduction.

«Because humans are also vertebrates, we enhance our understanding of our own evolutionary history and genetic heritage when we gain understanding of the amphibian lineage.»

Meanwhile, it is 42 % of amphibians at risk of extinction globally.

Together with an international team, Senckenberg scientist Professor Dr. Madelaine Böhme studied the development of the amphibian and reptile fauna in Western Siberia during the past twelve million years.

The chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) has been causing mass die - offs of amphibians all over the world since the 1980s.

More than 7 per cent of amphibians, or 427 species, are «critically endangered».

Several species of frogs, salamanders, toads and other amphibians around the world have gone extinct or are disappearing («Decline and fall of the amphibians», New Scientist, 27 June 1992).

According to the scientist, the results reveal that the populations of these amphibians with a tradition of coexisting with the predator for 30 years (between 10 and 15 generations of frogs) present a pattern of activity that is totally different from the populations with less coexistence or no coexistence with the red swamp crayfish.

This critically endangered frog can be used as a basis for declaring its native laterite habitats as «Conservation Reserves» or «Biological Heritage Areas» under existing legislations in India, allowing us to further our knowledge and understanding of amphibians,» said Mr Seshadri.

Before going to NSF — a move that brought her back to the Washington, D.C. area — Kearney headed up the Field Museum's Division of Amphibians and Reptiles in its Zoology Department.

But because the concentrations that affected the animals were so small — 30 times lower than the current allowable limit in drinking water — the findings support the use of amphibians as environmental sentinels.

«In this study, we made the exciting discovery that a handful of amphibian species — some of which were thought to have been completely wiped out — are persisting, and may even be recovering, after lethal disease outbreaks,» study lead author Jamie Voyles, a disease ecologist at the University of Nevada — Reno, said in a statement.

Human use is an important part of biodiversity survey work Biodiversity survey work is a critical step to assess and monitor the state of amphibians in any given area, even protected ones.

Host resistance to the chytrid fungus of amphibians Amphibians in Panama have experienced declines for over a decade due to the disease chytridiomycosis, caused by the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium... AmphibiaWeb