Sentences with phrase «of amphibians around»

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With this package you can see 32,000 aquatic animals — 1,500 species of fishes, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates, birds and mammals from waters around the world — during your stay at the Hilton Chicago.

Most of Britain's fast - declining populations of reptiles and amphibians, such as the great crested newt, live around small ponds that are unlikely to be listed, let alone protected, with the existing highly bureaucratic system of SSSI designation.

The island in the Indian Ocean is home to around 290 species of amphibians that are not found anywhere else in the world.

The species, Atelopus varius, vanished suddenly from streams across Costa Rica and Panama in the late 1980s and early 1990s, one of the many victims of the deadly chytrid fungus that has decimated amphibian populations around the world.

The counts show a decline of around 75 % in reptiles and amphibians in native forest since 1970.

Mountain amphibians in Central America have declined dramatically, and around 50 per cent of species, including the tree frog Hyla calypsa (pictured), are thought to have become extinct.

But many of those won't be around much longer; one out of every eight known bird species, one in four mammal species, and one in three amphibian species are at risk for extinction, according to the World Conservation Union (IUCN), which maintains the Red List, a catalog of the world's species classified according to their risk of extinction.

B. dendrobatidis infects more than 520 amphibian species around the world, has caused steep declines in populations of frogs and salamanders, and has driven some species into extinction.

Amphibians are the oldest class of existing four - legged vertebrates, having been around for 300 million years.

However, other studies suggest there were originally around 70 amphibian species in this area, of which 50 were hit by chytrid.

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.

«While we use amphibians as an example in this article, the negative effects of collecting samples from endangered animal populations is a concern that applies across taxa and around the world.

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).

«Bd is the first emerging disease shown to cause the decline or extinction of scores of populations of amphibians not otherwise threatened around the world,» Goldberg said.

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

Of the many amphibian populations that Bd savaged around the world (SN: 3/5/16, p. 14), a few have bounced back in numbers.

«Non-linear» animal reactions He and his colleagues based their analysis on nearly 500 million temperature records collected at 3,000 weather stations between 1961 and 2009, feeding that information into models that allowed them to estimate how climate shifts affected the metabolism of cold - blooded insects, lizards and amphibians around the world.

«If you saw it hopping around in your back yard, you wouldn't think much of it,» says Robert Carroll, an amphibian palaeontologist at McGill University in Montreal.

Amphibians around the world have been devastated by the spread of the deadly fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd).

But most of the toads transported by people are just stowaways, with the «taxi - drivers» having no idea that they are moving these unwelcome amphibians around the country.

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

Whenever Elisa isn't around, the amphibian is usually tortured or shocked with batons by scientists, enraging her to enlist the help of her only friends to pull off a heist mission.

Prevent small wildlife (like small mammals and amphibians) from drowning in pools of water around your home, too, with this small, affordable inflatable device.

The catastrophic decline and extinction of our planet's amphibians, some believe, is due to a virulent fungus spreading around the globe.

A University of Michigan genetic analysis has found that the global trade in bullfrogs is a prime conduit for the chytrid fungus, which has been devastating amphibian populations around the world.

Here's a quick cautionary tale related to amphibians, climate and the media — focusing on the extraordinarily charismatic harlequin frogs that have vanished from misty slopes around the tropics in the last couple of decades.

Forget the fact that numerous studies report worrying trends for many well - studied groups like birds and amphibians (the latter that are experiencing a pandemic decline and are excellent indicators of the health of the environment), you want us to wait until all of our life - support systems are collapsing around us before you will say that, «OK, I believe it.

It is a true amphibian half aquatic and half terrestrial city, able to accommodate 50,000 inhabitants and inviting the biodiversity to develop its fauna and flora around a central lagoon of soft water collecting and purifying the rain waters.

Around the world, rapid amphibian die - offs continued and each extirpation consistently coincided with the sudden arrival of the Bd fungus.