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Synergism between trematode infection and pesticide exposure: A link to amphibian limb deformities in nature?
  • J. Kiesecker
  • Biology
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
  • 12 July 2002
TLDR
Field experiments conclusively demonstrated that exposure to trematode infection was required for the development of limb deformities in wood frogs, Rana sylvatica, and corroborated the association between pesticide exposure and increased infection with pesticide-mediated immunocompetency as the apparent mechanism.
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Natural climate solutions
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It is shown that NCS can provide over one-third of the cost-effective climate mitigation needed between now and 2030 to stabilize warming to below 2 °C.
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UV repair and resistance to solar UV-B in amphibian eggs: a link to population declines?
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This work addressed the hypothesis that differential sensitivity among species to UV radiation contributes to population declines in amphibians by focusing on species-specific differences in the abilities of eggs to repair UV radiation damage to DNA and differential hatching success of embryos exposed to solar radiation at natural oviposition sites.
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Complex causes of amphibian population declines
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Climate-induced reductions in water depth at oviposition sites have caused high mortality of embryos by increasing their exposure to UV-B radiation and, consequently, their vulnerability to infection, indicating the role of large-scale climatic patterns involving the tropical Pacific.
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FOREST CANOPY AND THE PERFORMANCE OF LARVAL AMPHIBIANS
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It is found that a biotic manipulation (food addition) partially mitigated depressed growth rates in closed canopy ponds, which suggests that biotic factors also contribute to performance differences across the canopy gradient.
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Energy Sprawl or Energy Efficiency: Climate Policy Impacts on Natural Habitat for the United States of America
TLDR
In all scenarios, temperate deciduous forests and temperate grasslands will be most impacted by future energy development, although the magnitude of impact by wind, biomass, and coal to different habitat types is policy-specific.
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Complexity in conservation: lessons from the global decline of amphibian populations
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It is argued that amphibian population declines are caused by different abiotic and biotic factors acting together in a context-dependent fashion, and different species and different populations of the same species may react in different ways to the same environmental insult.
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Policy Development for Biodiversity Offsets: A Review of Offset Frameworks
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A set of major offset policy frameworks is reviewed—US wetlands mitigation, US conservation banking, EU Natura 2000, Australian offset policies in New South Wales, Victoria, and Western Australia, and Brazilian industrial and forest offsets—to find substantial policy commonalities that may serve as a sound basis for future development of biodiversity offsets policy.
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Synergism between UV-B radiation and a pathogen magnifies amphibian embryo mortality in nature.
TLDR
A synergistic effect between UV-B radiation and a pathogenic fungus in the field that increases the mortality of amphibian embryos compared with either factor alone is experimentally demonstrated.
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Ultraviolet radiation, toxic chemicals and amphibian population declines
TLDR
This paper reviews the contribution of increasing UV radiation and environmental contamination to the global decline of amphibian populations and suggests synergy interactions of UV radiation with contaminants can enhance the detrimental effects of the contaminant and UV radiation.
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