Given that larvae of different amphibian species belong to different trophic levels, their effects on freshwater communities and processes can be expected to differ, with herbivores likely having direct effects on algae and predators having indirect effects through trophic cascades. Leer más.
We found that populations collected from ponds with low and intermediate salt concentrations exhibited similar tolerance curves over a 96-h exposure. However, the population from a pond with the highest salt concentration exhibited a much higher tolerance. Leer más.
With seven new frog species described to science and over a million frog records at our fingertips, we revise and update the Australian Frog Atlas – the most detailed, up-to-date distribution maps of all of Australia’s 254 frog species. Leer más.
La mañana de ayer, sábado 20 de abril, personal de la almadraba de La Azohía (Cartagena), técnicos de ANSE y del Centro de Recuperación de Fauna Silvestre de El Valle (CARM) procedieron a la liberación de un enorme ejemplar macho de tortuga boba de más de 1 m de longitud y más de 80 kgs de peso, que había quedado atrapado en la última almadraba del litoral mediterráneo de la Península Ibérica, reconocida recientemente como Bien de Interés Cultural (BIC). Leer más.
The designation, granted April 18, is the latest in a long series of steps to try to protect the dwindling population of the desert creature, which biologists say is heading toward extinction. Leer más.
