A deadly fungus responsible for the devastation of amphibian populations around the world may have originated in East Asia, new research has found.
Plants & Animals
May 10, 2018
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Bacterial communities that live on the skin of frogs and toads could provide vital clues to species' vulnerability to the lethal chytrid fungus.
Plants & Animals
Feb 19, 2018
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With amphibian populations declining around the world and funds to find the causes scarce, a team of Penn State researchers has shown that an unorthodox tactic will make it easier and therefore less expensive to capture adult ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 7, 2017
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Iconic species likely to be wiped-out by amphibian fungus, despite lack of obvious short-term evidence.
Plants & Animals
Sep 27, 2017
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The calls of frogs on warm nights in the spring are a welcome sound, telling listeners that the seasons are changing and summer is coming. Today, however, ponds that once echoed with the chirps, chuckles and calls of frogs ...
Ecology
Sep 20, 2017
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Researchers at Lancaster University have found a way to detect subtle early warning signs that reveal a frog population is at risk from pollution.
Plants & Animals
Mar 24, 2017
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A new strain of ranavirus is currently causing mass mortality in several species of amphibian in the Serra da Estrela, the highest mountain range in continental Portugal. This infectious agent is hypervirulent and also affects ...
Ecology
Mar 13, 2017
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A new study looks at how neonicotinoid pesticides affect wood frogs, which use surface waters in agricultural environments to breed and reproduce. Neonicotinoids are widely used insecticides that are applied to a variety ...
Ecology
Mar 1, 2017
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(Phys.org)—A trio of zoologists with Southern Illinois University has found that behavioral phenotypes may be used to predict disease susceptibility and infectiousness. In their paper published in the journal Biology Letters, ...
New U.S. Geological Survey-led research suggests that even though amphibians are severely declining worldwide, there is no smoking gun - and thus no simple solution - to halting or reversing these declines.
Ecology
May 23, 2016
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