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Diversity of amphibians in rice fields from northeastern Argentina [PDF]
Se registró y analizó la diversidad y riqueza de una comunidad de anfibios que habita campos de arroz en el nordeste de Ar.gentina. Las muestras fueron obtenidas en el período comprendido entre octubre 2001 y junio 2003.
Duré Pitteri, Marta Inés +3 more
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Number of Pages: 22Integrative BiologyGeological ...
Leavitt, Daniel J. +1 more
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The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton +2 more
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Amphibian richness along modified riparian areas of central Mexico: conservation priorities
Background Land-use change frequently affects faunistic populations and communities. To achieve successful conservation strategies, we need suitable information about species distribution and the causes of extinction risk.
Marco Tulio Oropeza-Sánchez +4 more
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The conservation status of the herpetofauna of Honduras [PDF]
The conservation status of the members of the Honduran herpetofauna is discussed. Based on current and projected future human population growth, it is posited that the entire herpetofauna is endangered.
McCranie, James R., Wilson, Larry David
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Abstract The complex evolutionary history behind modern mammalian chewing performance and hearing function is a result of several changes in the entire skeletomuscular system of the skull and lower jaw. Lately, exciting multifunctional 3D analytical methods and kinematic simulations of feeding functions in both modern and fossil mammals and their ...
Julia A. Schultz
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A bibliometric-mapping approach to identifying patterns and trends in amphibian decline research
Amphibian decline is one of the most severe and well-documented examples of immediacy of the ongoing biodiversity crisis. In this study we analyze the scientific literature on amphibian declines with a view to identifying and analyzing emerging patterns ...
Claudio Angelini +2 more
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SECOND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON RANAVIRUSES:: A NORTH AMERICAN HERPETOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE [PDF]
Ranaviruses are large double stranded DNA viruses of poikilothermic vertebrates including amphibians, reptiles and fish. In North America, ranaviral disease and ranavirus-related die-off events have been documented in all three classes.
Brunner, Jesse L. +3 more
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Abstract The baphetoids represent a clade of the Carboniferous stem‐tetrapods (Middle Mississippian—Middle Pennsylvanian) with a characteristic extension of the orbits into antorbital vacuities, which formed keyhole‐shaped openings on the skull. The more derived baphetids were crocodile‐like piscivores frequently occurring in coal‐bearing lacustrine ...
Pavel Barták, Martin Ivanov, Boris Ekrt
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Chytridiomycosis related mortality in a midwife toad (Alytes obstetricans) in Belgium [PDF]
Chytridiomycosis, caused by the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, contributes to amphibian declines worldwide. Recently, the fungus has shown to be widely distributed in Belgium and the Netherlands, although no clinical cases of the disease have ...
Brutyn, Melanie +7 more
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