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Amphibia-Reptilia Pub Date : 2023-11-22 DOI: 10.1163/15685381-440402seh

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Size-assortative mating of Buergeria buergeri (Anura: Rhacophoridae): breeding strategies for balancing fertilisation rate and swimming ability Buergeria buergeri（无尾目：犀角科）的大小匀称交配：平衡受精率和游泳能力的繁殖策略

IF 1.6 4区生物学

Amphibia-Reptilia Pub Date : 2023-11-14 DOI: 10.1163/15685381-bja10159

Keigo Takahashi

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Thermal biology of Lanthanotus borneensis (Lanthanotidae) in Sarawak, Borneo 婆罗洲沙捞越地区婆罗洲绵虾的热生物学

4区生物学

Amphibia-Reptilia Pub Date : 2023-11-09 DOI: 10.1163/15685381-bja10158

Veronica Leah, Pui Yong Min, Indraneil Das

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The relationship of body colouration to morphological traits in a population of green frogs from Georgia, USA 美国乔治亚州绿蛙种群体色与形态特征的关系

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Amphibia-Reptilia Pub Date : 2023-11-02 DOI: 10.1163/15685381-bja10157

Barry P. Stephenson, Jorden Christensen

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Effect of climate change on fossorial species: a case study comparing species of the genus Scincella 气候变化对窝栖物种的影响:以香菜属物种比较为例

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Amphibia-Reptilia Pub Date : 2023-10-31 DOI: 10.1163/15685381-bja10155

Israel Moreno-Lara, Jorge Luis Becerra-López, Aurelio Ramírez-Bautista

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Local scale population risk determines the adaptive responses of larval salamanders to predator kairomones 局部规模的种群风险决定了蝾螈幼虫对捕食者激素的适应性反应

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Amphibia-Reptilia Pub Date : 2023-10-27 DOI: 10.1163/15685381-bja10156

Christopher L. Cannon, Jon M. Davenport

{"title":"Local scale population risk determines the adaptive responses of larval salamanders to predator kairomones","authors":"Christopher L. Cannon, Jon M. Davenport","doi":"10.1163/15685381-bja10156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685381-bja10156","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Organisms can exhibit plasticity in phenotypic responses to environmental stimuli but the response can vary based on the evolutionary history of a population. Numerous studies have found that prey will express adaptive responses when subjected to various predators in experimental settings. For species with a large distribution, such as Ambystoma maculatum (spotted salamander), it is not surprising that phenotypic variance can be high across their range. This variance has been hypothesized to be because of different predator regimes of populations. While A. maculatum preferentially oviposit eggs in low-risk ponds (temporary fishless) to decrease egg and larval mortality, Missouri populations still use high-risk ponds (permanent with fish) for reproduction. Using a series of experiments, we investigated how A. maculatum population risk influenced adaptive responses to both native and novel predator kairomones. For natural predators, we used larval A. opacum (marbled salamanders) and Lepomis macrochirus (bluegill) and for novel predators we used Siren intermedia (lesser siren). We found that larval salamanders generally responded with no differences in morphological traits to all three predators. However, head width was larger for low-risk populations. One hypothesized benefit of larger heads (increased foraging efficiency) was not fully supported. All larval salamanders also increased refuge use with predators but this decreased over time. Our results suggest that predation risk of a population may influence the degree of phenotypic expression in response to larval predators. Overall, local adaptation may dictate the ability of prey to respond to environmental conditions within a life stage.","PeriodicalId":50799,"journal":{"name":"Amphibia-Reptilia","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136312676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Ontogenetic and cohort estimates of tadpole survival for the threatened Betic midwife toad (Alytes dickhilleni) in two contrasting small waterbodies 在两个不同的小水体中，受威胁的贝特助产士蟾蜍(Alytes dickhilleni)蝌蚪存活的个体发育和队列估计

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Amphibia-Reptilia Pub Date : 2023-10-20 DOI: 10.1163/15685381-bja10154

Adrián Guerrero-Gómez, Mar Torralva, Francisco José Oliva-Paterna, José Manuel Zamora-Marín

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Genetic data to describe the hybrid zone between Bufo bufo (Linnaeus, 1758) and Bufo verrucosissimus (Pallas, 1814) in northeastern Türkiye 描述斯里兰卡东北部Bufo Bufo (Linnaeus, 1758)和Bufo verrucosissimus (Pallas, 1814)杂交带的遗传数据

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Amphibia-Reptilia Pub Date : 2023-10-12 DOI: 10.1163/15685381-bja10152

Cantekin Dursun, Gregorio Sánchez-Montes, Nurhayat Özdemir, Serkan Gül, Iñigo Martínez-Solano

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An empty stomach is not a good adviser: avoiding toxic Cyanobacteria can compromise tadpole antipredator defenses 空腹并不是一个好的建议:避免有毒的蓝藻会损害蝌蚪的反捕食者防御

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Amphibia-Reptilia Pub Date : 2023-10-11 DOI: 10.1163/15685381-bja10153

Samuel Moura, Jéssica S. Kloh, Cleber C. Figueredo, Paula C. Eterovick

{"title":"An empty stomach is not a good adviser: avoiding toxic Cyanobacteria can compromise tadpole antipredator defenses","authors":"Samuel Moura, Jéssica S. Kloh, Cleber C. Figueredo, Paula C. Eterovick","doi":"10.1163/15685381-bja10153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685381-bja10153","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Eutrophication events resulting from increased primary production are becoming common under changing environmental conditions that include habitat degradation and disturbance of food webs. They cause several detrimental ecological consequences including the intoxication of animals that ingest toxic Cyanobacteria. We tested whether the tadpole of an anthropophilic frog ( Scinax longilineus ) would avoid feeding on a potentially toxic Cyanobacteria using Raphidiopsis raciborskii as a model. We maintained tadpoles in water collected from a natural monospecific growth of R. raciborskii at the original concentration (100%) and concentrations of 0, 25, 50 and 75% of the original sample diluted in rested tap water. We evaluated the amount of R. raciborskii ingested by the tadpoles and conducted behavioral tests by exposing tadpoles to an aversive stimulus and quantifying their escape response. Tadpoles ate the least R. raciborskii the highest the concentration of this Cyanobacteria was in the water. Tadpoles exposed to 50 and 75% of the original concentration of the R. raciborskii sample had a reduction of time spent escaping, what is likely to compromise their ability to escape a real predator attack. Tadpoles at the highest concentration (100%) did not show significant changes in their escape performance, however they practically stopped feeding, what would not be a solution in the long term (i.e., duration of a real bloom). We conclude that tadpoles of S. longilineus can recognize the presence of R. raciborskii and avoid its ingestion, with potential sub-lethal effects represented by a reduced ability to escape predators.","PeriodicalId":50799,"journal":{"name":"Amphibia-Reptilia","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136253121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Behavioural response of Dryophytes plicatus tadpoles to the cues of non-native rainbow trout and a native snake 湿藓蝌蚪对非本地虹鳟鱼和本地蛇提示的行为反应

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Amphibia-Reptilia Pub Date : 2023-09-29 DOI: 10.1163/15685381-bja10151

Olga Méndez-Méndez, Renato Sánchez-Sánchez, Jazmín Hernández-Luría, Geoffrey R. Smith, Julio A. Lemos-Espinal

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