It’s a crisp January morning in Chattanooga. Birds rustle and chirp as they flit through tall grasses and short, scrubby trees. The Tennessee River flows placidly between sharp hills next to the ...
AUSTIN, Texas— The Center for Biological Diversity and Save Our Springs Alliance today filed a formal petition asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to provide Endangered Species Act protection ...
AUSTIN, Texas — We're no strangers to drought in Central Texas. In fact, words like "drought," "water conservation" and "water shortage" tend to lose their meaning after multiple years of ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (CN) — Recognizing its importance as an indicator species for clean water, Pennsylvania lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to designate a state amphibian: an enormous salamander ...
AUSTIN, Texas— The Center for Biological Diversity and Save Our Springs Alliance formally notified the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today of their intent to sue the agency for failing to provide ...
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Walking on ice: How blue-spotted salamanders defy freezing death
Quick Take Blue-spotted salamanders in Ontario can actively move on ice at freezing temperatures. Of 21 salamanders ...
A spotted salamander rests on a fallen log. Some salamander species are transforming from aquatic larvae to amphibious adults this week in Missouri. Watch for these unique creatures in the woods and ...
Spatial variation in water loss predicts terrestrial salamander distribution and population dynamics
Many patterns observed in ecology, such as species richness, life history variation, habitat use, and distribution, have physiological underpinnings. For many ectothermic organisms, temperature ...
Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 44, No. 1 (March 2010), pp. 104-109 (6 pages) Research on landscape connectivity for amphibians that use isolated wetlands has focused on terrestrial and semiterrestrial ...
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