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Conserving amphibian populations living in urban areas is challenging due to a lack of information about urban amphibian natural history, ecology, and responses to habitat management.
John P. Vanek +2 more
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A New Disease Caused by an Unidentified Etiological Agent Affects European Salamanders
New pathologies are causing dramatic declines and extinctions of multiple amphibian species. In 2013, in one fire salamander population of Northern Italy, we found individuals with undescribed cysts at the throat level, a malady whose existence has not ...
Raoul Manenti +8 more
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Does long-term fire suppression impact leaf litter breakdown and aquatic invertebrate colonization in pine flatwoods wetlands? [PDF]
Ephemeral wetlands are commonly embedded within pine uplands of the southeastern United States. These wetlands support diverse communities but have often been degraded by a lack of growing-season fires that historically maintained the vegetation ...
Houston C. Chandler +4 more
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Springs are interface habitats between the surface and subterranean environments, often neglected by zoological studies and generally regarded only from a surface perspective.
R. Manenti, E. Pezzoli
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After metamorphosis, fire salamander is considered fully terrestrial, usually inhabiting wooded areas around aquatic habitats. It is often reported that only females go back to water for laying the larvae.
Raoul Manenti +2 more
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Diverse communities of symbiotic microbes inhabit the digestive systems of vertebrates and play a crucial role in animal health, and host diet plays a major role in shaping the composition and diversity of these communities.
Yu Wang +10 more
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The Midwife Toad Challenge After (Half) a Century
The evolutionary biologist Paul Kammerer (1880–1926) purportedly demonstrated that environmentally induced character states are carried over to the next generation(s), therewith providing evidence for Lamarckian evolution.
Jan W. Arntzen, Jan W. Arntzen
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Ecological transcriptomics – a non‐lethal sampling approach for endangered fire salamanders [PDF]
Summary The analysis of transcriptomes is well‐established and increasingly affordable in studies at the interface of ecology and evolution. Expression analysis of thousands of genes in parallel reveals functions and pathways involved in relevant phenotypic differentiation.
Czypionka, T. +6 more
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Habitat adaptation rather than genetic distance correlates with female preference in fire salamanders (Salamandra salamandra) [PDF]
Caspers B, Junge C, Weitere M, Steinfartz S. Habitat adaptation rather than genetic distance correlates with female preference in fire salamanders (Salamandra salamandra). Frontiers in Zoology. 2009;6(1):13.Background: Although some mechanisms of habitat
Steinfartz, Sebastian +16 more
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Seasonal cycles have a demonstrated effect on the dynamics of human and animal diseases. However, their quantitative implications for disease mitigation in wildlife are less well studied.
Claudio Bozzuto, Stefano Canessa
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