Migrating amphibians contend with fewer cars
If anyone is appreciating the lack of activity associated with the pandemic lockdowns, it may be amphibians. Traffic can be deadly for amphibians migrating each ...
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Underwater videos improve hellbender conservation
Underwater videos can help researchers find hellbenders without damaging or permanently scaring them away the rocks where they nest. Eastern hellbenders ...
In tiny streams, salamanders dwindle due to climate change
As Winsor Lowe studied tiny headwater streams in the mountains of northern New Hampshire, he found he had a mystery on his hands. Adult salamanders, which he had ...
Watch: Carnivorous Canadian plant eats baby salamanders
Biologists have discovered a salamander-eating plant in a Canadian provincial park. Researchers monitoring carnivorous northern pitcher plants (Sarracenia purpurea ...
Hellbenders are picky about finding the perfect rock to call home
Home hunting is always a challenge, but eastern hellbenders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) face the danger of getting killed if they don’t find the right rock to ...
Climate impacts amphibians but isn’t main reason for decline
Researchers know that frogs, toads and salamanders have been facing steep declines in recent decades, but is climate change the main driver? Putting together data ...
Salamanders’ breeding season affects dispersal, gene flow
Recent research on salamander gene flow in the forests of Missouri indicates that when deciding which ponds to protect on a landscape to conserve amphibian ...
JWM study: Where Maine’s montane amphibians breed
In the mountains of Maine, where spotted salamanders (Ambystoma maculatum) and wood frogs (Lithobates sylvaticus) breed in temporary vernal pools, they depend most ...
Shelterwood harvest is good for lizards, bad for salamanders
A common forestry practice may be bad for salamanders, but good for lizards, according to a recent U.S. Forest Service study published in Forest Ecology and ...
Climate Change May Impact Northwest Mountain Amphibians
Warmer winters and the changing nature of precipitation may have negative effects on amphibians that live in the mountainous wetlands of the Pacific Northwest, ...