Sentences with phrase «wave of amphibian»

The Rabbs» tree frog is just the latest victim in a growing global wave of amphibian die - offs, with a host of factors in play, from land clearing and ultraviolet radiation to pollution and climate shifts.

His talk focused on the relentless waves of amphibian die - offs in Central America, where hosts of unique populations were blinking out with each few miles of new territory affected by the fungus.

Not exact matches

Researchers at the Universities of Lisbon (Portugal) and Uppsala (Sweden) studied the behaviour of three kinds of amphibians that inhabit the Iberian Peninsula: the European tree frog (Hyla arborea), the Mediterranean tree frog (Hyla meridionalis) and the Iberian painted frog (Discoglosus galganoi) to find out what effect heat waves can have on their diets.

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.

Andrew Gray at the University of Manchester, UK, says captive breeding is critical for preventing vulnerable amphibians being wiped out by the next wave of disease or the tiniest change in their natural environment.

If your inner amphibian craves a wave, you have the right kind of brain to appreciate the elemental story and scenic backdrops.

With this in mind, I urge you to read the Op - Ed article on this remarkable amphibian by Joseph R. Mendelson III, the director of Zoo Atlanta and a leader of the team that discovered the species in Panama in 2005 — just as a wave of a novel and devastating amphibian fungus was sweeping the region.

Reminiscent of the wave of introduced diseases brought by Conquistadors that extirpated millions of native Incas and Aztecs, Central and South American amphibians were under the attack of a rapidly spreading fungus.

Later as amphibian biologists shared their research, it was realized that they were facing a global wave of local extinctions.

Seventy?six amphibian experts eventually agreed on an amphibian recovery plan, and set out to rescue species most likely to be endangered by the spreading wave of Bd fungus.

Indeed for the past 3 decades there has been an alarming wave of worldwide amphibian extinctions and after rigorous testing epidemiologists determined that an introduced fungus was the cause.