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The Effect of Nonstationarity on Models Inferred from Neural Data

, 2013
Neurons subject to a common non-stationary input may exhibit a correlated firing behavior. Correlations in the statistics of neural spike trains also arise as the effect of interaction between neurons.
Bishop C, Burnham K P, Joanna Tyrcha, John Hertz, Matteo Marsili, Mezard M, Plefka T, Roudi Y, Tkacik G Schneidman E Berry M J II Bialek W, Yasser Roudi   +9 more
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How Large, Decayed, and Moist Must Rotting Logs Be to Act as Thermally Buffered Microhabitats in Temperate Eastern United States Forests?

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 5, May 2026.
This study addresses the ecological role of coarse woody debris (CWD) as a thermally buffered microhabitat for saproxylic organisms in temperate eastern US forests. We measured internal and external log temperatures across four seasons in Southern Appalachian forests to test how log diameter, decay stage, and moisture influence thermal buffering.
Ryan T. Phillips, Ryan C. Garrick
wiley   +1 more source

Powerful yet challenging: mechanistic niche models for predicting invasive species potential distribution under climate change

Ecography, Volume 2026, Issue 5, May 2026.
Risk assessments of invasive species present one of the most challenging applications of species distribution models (SDMs) due to the fundamental issues of distributional disequilibrium, niche changes, and truncation. Invasive species often occupy only a fraction of their potential environmental and geographic ranges, as their spatiotemporal dynamics ...
Erola Fenollosa, Sean E. H. Pang, Natalie J. Briscoe, Antoine Guisan, Roberto Salguero-Gómez   +4 more
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Scale of herpetofauna mitigation translocation in British Columbia, Canada

The Journal of Wildlife Management, Volume 90, Issue 4, May 2026.
Mitigation translocation is widely used across British Columbia to move amphibians and reptiles away from development. Reviewing permits from 2019–2022, we found that more than 5 million individuals, mostly larval western toads, were relocated. Yet almost no monitoring occurs, leaving outcomes unknown.
Megan Winand, Leigh Anne Isaac, Purnima Govindarajulu, Lindsay Anderson, Tara G. Martin   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Peaks of Otter Salamander (Plethodon hubrichti) Condition: Optimal Elevations for This Montane Species of Salamander [PDF]

, 2019
Undergraduate ...
Cusack, Liam, Dawson, Cetia, de Araujo, Olivia, Dunn, Savannah, Kinsley, Hannah, Russell, Elisabeth, Suber, Hannah   +6 more
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Monitoring mercury across the National Wildlife Refuge System using a biosentinel approach

The Journal of Wildlife Management, Volume 90, Issue 4, May 2026.
We measured mercury concentrations in 1,356 dragonfly larvae collected from 30 National Wildlife Refuges across the United States and found wide variability among refuges, spanning the full range reported for other protected lands. Using a management‐focused mercury impairment index, 80% of refuges contained sites classified as moderate or higher risk.
Jennifer L. Wilkening, James J. Willacker, Emily S. Khazan, Colleen Flanagan Pritz, Sarah J. Nelson, Catherine Collins, Katherine Ko, Colleen Emery, Collin A. Eagles Smith   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Persistent activation of transducin by bleached rhodopsin in salamander rods. [PDF]

, 1996
The hydrolysis-resistant GTP analogue GTP-gamma-S was introduced into rods isolated from the retina of the salamander Ambystoma tigrinum to study the origin of the persistent excitation induced by intense bleaching illumination.
Cornwall, MC, Fain, GL, Matthews, HR
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Inferring Time‐to‐Speciation From Hybrid Zone Analysis Informs Assessments of Taxonomic Inflation

Molecular Ecology, Volume 35, Issue 9, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Measuring gene flow across hybrid zones can provide a direct evaluation of reproductive isolation (RI) between evolutionary divergent lineages. Geographic‐explicit modelling of gene flow across hybrid zones, known as cline analysis, thus offers a gold standard for species delimitation under the biological species criterion.
Sven Gippner, Katharina Ruthsatz, Christophe Dufresnes, Miguel Vences   +3 more
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Environmental temperature and pathogen dose affect histologic lesion count and severity in Notophthalmus viridescens infected with Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans

Frontiers in Amphibian and Reptile Science
IntroductionBatrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal) was discovered a decade ago in Europe, where it is emerging and decimating salamander populations. North America, a global hotspot for salamander biodiversity, faces risk of Bsal introduction through ...
Wesley C. Sheley, Wesley C. Sheley, Mark Q. Wilber, Edward Davis Carter, Matthew J. Gray, Debra L. Miller, Debra L. Miller   +6 more
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Distribution, Hybridization, and Taxonomic Status of Two-lined Salamanders (\u3ci\u3eEurycea bislineata\u3c/i\u3e complex) in Virginia and West Virginia [PDF]

, 2019
We used three diagnostic protein markers to examine salamanders of the Eurycea bislineata complex at 80 localities in Virginia and West Virginia. Two groups were strongly differentiated and met at a narrow contact zone. Rare hybridization was observed as
Brophy, Timothy R., Sattler, Paul W.
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