Sentences with phrase «spotted salamanders»

Amphibians such as wood frogs and spotted salamanders, some of the most common amphibians in the Upper Valley, have what is called «breeding site fidelity».

Marvin Gaye Chetwynd @ Sadie Coles A giant bat and spotted salamanders protrude from the walls and you can hand operate a jack in the box.

The deep redwood canopy is a vertical Eden filled with mosses, lichens, spotted salamanders, hanging gardens of ferns, and thickets of huckleberry bushes, all growing out of massive trunk systems that have fused and formed flying buttresses, sometimes carved into blackened chambers, hollowed out by fire, called «fire caves.»

«For a green alga, spotted salamanders are stressful hosts: New study deciphers an exceptional vertebrate - algal relationship.»

Since late February, researchers from the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum and Lincoln Park Zoo have been monitoring levels of cortisol (known as the stress hormone) in three species that have been reintroduced or restored by the forest preserve: wood frogs (designated as «in great need of conservation» in Illinois); spotted salamanders, a rare species for northeastern Illinois; and spring peepers, a frog species whose local populations are in decline.

A Viennese zoologist proved that the acquired characters of the spotted salamander could be inherited, until it was discovered that the «spots» had been applied with ink.

(The nation's first amphibian tunnel was built in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1987 to aid the spring migration of the spotted salamander.)

It might sound like something out of a Dr. Seuss story, but biologists have long told tales of the green eggs of the spotted salamander.

But recent research has revealed that the algae are actually located inside cells all over the spotted salamander's body.

New research shows how two drastically different organisms — a green alga and the spotted salamander — get along as cellular roommates.

This cell - within - a-cell relationship can also be found in corals and in the guts of cicadas, but the green alga - spotted salamander interaction is the only known example of a symbiont entering the cells of a vertebrate species.

Scientists have known for more than a century that a green alga (Oophila amblystomatis) grows in the egg cases of the spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum)-- the strange pairing is visible to the naked eye in the green hue of salamanders» eggs.

We support a rare assembly of plant and animal species — including 200 - year old American oak trees and wetlands that are home to the blue - spotted salamander — and contributes significantly to the protection of the area's water resources, air quality and carbon sequestration.

This paper by Urban and Richardson presents an elegant series of studies of how foraging rates have evolved in multiple populations of the spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) that coexist with different types of predators.

An advantage of clear over white egg mass morphs in metabolically demanding microhabitats suggests a role of symbiotic algae in the maintenance of a polymorphism in the spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum).

Not exact matches

When they do emerge, salamanders can be spotted not only on forest floors but also up in trees and on other vegetation, oftentimes climbing as high as 8 feet up.

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The United States is home to many terrestrial salamanders, most notably tigers, spotted and marbled (again, all of the Ambystoma genus) and these should all once more enter the marketplace.

Dr. Klemens» explained that the property provides important habitat for at least four species of special concern — the Jefferson salamander as well as box, spotted and wood turtles.