Sentences with phrase «state of amphibians»

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

Not exact matches

The wetland complex is home for 284 species of plants (including 108 regionally endangered, 11 state - wide endangered and 1 nationally endangered), 171 species of birds (making it a significant bird hotspot in South Australia and Australia), 47 species of reptiles, 13 species of mammals, 9 species of fish and 8 species of amphibians.

The plaintiffs» attorney, George Carpinello of Boies, Schiller & Flexner, said Tuesday evening he would «absolutely» appeal to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals — the same venue where he previously won a suit that blocked the State Liquor Authority from blocking the sale and marketing of Bad Frog Beer because its label depicted an amphibian giving the middle - finger salute.

After a testy debate last week on the floor of the Senate, the frog was voted the state's official amphibian by the Senate.

It is the state amphibian of Minnesota and Vermont.

«The bottom line is that natural levels of UV - B in the field are killing the eggs of some amphibians,» says Andrew Blaustein of Oregon State University near Portland.

A team of paleontologists of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, the State University of New York at Oswego and Brown University shows in a new study of fossil amphibians that the extraordinary regenerative capacities of modern salamanders are likely an ancient feature of four - legged vertebrates that was subsequently lost in the course of evolution.

Frogwatch All across the United States The American Association of Zoos and Aquariums» FrogWatch program enlists amphibian fans from coast to coast to track local frog and toad species by identifying the animals» mating calls.

But insects and amphibians have water - sensing nerve cells, and there is growing evidence of similar cells in mammals, says Patricia Di Lorenzo, a behavioral neuroscientist at the State University of New York in Binghamton.

Help the state's Department of Natural Resources create a statewide survey and complete history of its amphibians and reptiles

«Maybe people don't care about amphibians, but imagine if this kind of pathogen had gotten into mammals,» says Vance Vredenburg, an ecologist at San Francisco State University.

The United States, a hot spot of amphibian diversity, has already taken steps in that direction.

That changes once Colonel Strickland (Michael Shannon) brings an Asset (Doug Jones) to the compound in the form of a mysterious amphibian monster that can supposedly help the United States get an advantage in the Cold War.

With 2016 underway, members of the herp industry across the United States face new opportunities, new legislative and regulatory attacks on businesses, and new challenges to reptile and amphibian ownership at all levels of government.

Since 2013, the subcommittee has orchestrated several successes and positive outcomes, some of which include: • Collaborating with the PIJAC Zoonosis committee to update the Healthy Herp Handling poster promoting healthy reptile and amphibian handling practices; develop the Zoonotic Disease Prevention Series for Retailers; draft informative store signage on how to prevent zoonotic diseases; participate in meetings on rodent and reptile disease transmission with the Centers for Disease Control; and produce and revise best management practices (BMP) documents; • Collaborating with the United States Association of Reptile Keepers on past and current attempts to pass legislation, ordinances, and regulatory activity that may impact herp ownership and related businesses; • Attending Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) meetings with reports and summary of actions affecting import and export of reptiles; • Addressing the 2013 Center for Biological Diversity petition to list 53 herp species under the Endangered Species Act; • Reviewing and commenting on the recent US Fish and Wildlife status review on the proposal to list wood turtles under the Endangered Species Act; • Submitting comments on proposed listing of flat - tailed tortoise and spider tortoise under the Endangered Species Act; • Introducing federal legislation in 2013 to allow for the export of certain constrictors listed as injurious in air shipments with aircraft that land in a state for refueling; • Providing volunteer support for auctions at 2013 National Reptile Breeders Expo and several North American Reptile Breeders Conferences; • Providing extensive consultation on constrictor caging standards in Ohio.

The subcommittee's mission is to foster collaboration among the herp community to address regulatory and legislative issues impacting businesses, hobbyists, and the environmental stewardship of reptiles and amphibians as pets in the United States.

The event will include two days of panels, workshops, breakout sessions, and talks to discuss laws, rules and regulations regarding reptiles and amphibians at the local, state, national and international levels.

They have a chance to do what we were not able to do for amphibians in Australia, the Neotropics and even the western United States: prevent the arrival and spread of a deadly fungus.

While no one argues that climate change is, and will continue to affect amphibians, the claim published by Pounds et al. stating that climate change directly caused the chytrid outbreaks has now been dismissed by four major papers, by three unrelated sets of investigators.

In the United States, no agency directly regulates imports of salamanders or other amphibians.

The story focuses on the decadeslong body of research pointing to near - worldwide declines in amphibians, as well as recent die - offs of bats focused in the northeastern United States.

«Under the proposed development scenario, the ecosystems of the overall site are so fragmented as to virtually ensure the extinction of all the extant populations of amphibians and reptiles on that site designated by the state as species of special concern,» stated Dr. Klemens.

«They are banned in several states now because they are an African species and a threat to native fish and amphibians, some of which are already endangered.

The study's authors, Vance Vredenburg of San Francisco State University and David Wake of UC Berkeley, believe the amphibians» disappearance is telling us something about our future and that of millions of other species.