Sentences with phrase «salamander populations»

Last year, biologists identified a virulent imported fungus, Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans, as the cause of a steep drop in salamander populations in continental Europe.

«The threat to global salamander populations from a new fungal strain is very real and of great concern to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,» Laury Marshall Parramore, a spokeswoman for the wildlife agency, wrote in an email.

The threat to global salamander populations from a new fungal strain is very real and of great concern to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

«We found no evidence that climbing allows these salamanders to more fully exploit available food resources, which instead suggests that other mechanisms, such as competition or predator avoidance, might be important influences on salamander populations,» said Connette.

The study was prompted by the research of Curators» Professor Ray Semlitsch, who has been studying salamander populations in the Appalachian Mountains since 2005.

Goldberg is also working with colleagues across the United States to sample lake water to determine whether a pathogen related to Bd that has devastated salamander populations in Europe does not establish itself in North America.

Bsal was described only about 2 years ago, after it wiped out the fire salamander population in the Netherlands.

Studies they have led since their initial discovery show that Bsal — probably introduced from Asia by the pet trade — has the potential to wipe out salamander populations across Europe.

However, Semlitsch's group, armed with the knowledge that the majority of salamanders are underground at any given time, captured animals on the surface during intensive repeated surveys over two years and used statistical modeling to produce a more thorough accounting of variation in salamander population density.

Salamander Project teens spent many hours this summer collecting data to determine the relationship between salamander populations and invasive plants — garlic mustard, chickweed, bedstraw and Japanese knotweed, to name just a few — in Riverdale Park.

Bsal has caused major die - offs of salamanders in Europe and poses an imminent threat to U.S. native salamander populations.

Herpetologists quickly began pressing United States agencies and officials (Dot Earth, Op - Ed article) to clamp down on the global exotic pet trade to cut the chances of the disease reaching the United States — which has the most diverse salamander population in the world.

Then in late April, British biologists reported finding the fungus for the first time in Britain, in a captive salamander population at a zoo.

The catastrophic declines in frog and salamander populations in recent years may be even more widespread than had been feared — and the devastation seems to extend to reptiles.

Frustrated that biologists don't know the first thing about how big or widespread the salamander populations are, Špela Goricki, a molecular biologist at the Tular Cave Laboratory in Kranj, Slovenia, decided to borrow a forensic technique more commonly used in law enforcement: eDNA.

According to Schmidt, all these factors make it almost impossible to save a salamander population in its natural environment once infected.