Freshwater megafauna shape ecosystems and facilitate restoration

F He, JC Svenning, X Chen, K Tockner… - Biological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Freshwater megafauna, such as sturgeons, giant catfishes, river dolphins, hippopotami,
crocodylians, large turtles, and giant salamanders, have experienced severe population …

Sperm motility of externally fertilizing fish and amphibians

RK Browne, SA Kaurova, VK Uteshev, NV Shishova… - Theriogenology, 2015 - Elsevier
We review the phylogeny, sperm competition, morphology, physiology, and fertilization
environments of the sperm of externally fertilizing fish and amphibians. Increased sperm …

Future climate change will severely reduce habitat suitability of the Critically Endangered Chinese giant salamander

Z Zhang, S Mammola, Z Liang, C Capinha… - Freshwater …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Being the largest extant amphibian in the world, the IUCN Critically Endangered Chinese
giant salamander Andrias davidianus is a charismatic species with great international public …

Sperm collection and storage for the sustainable management of amphibian biodiversity

RK Browne, AJ Silla, R Upton, G Della-Togna… - Theriogenology, 2019 - Elsevier
Current rates of biodiversity loss pose an unprecedented challenge to the conservation
community, particularly with amphibians and freshwater fish as the most threatened …

The evolution of parental care in salamanders

B Vági, D Marsh, G Katona, Z Végvári, RP Freckleton… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Complex parenting has been proposed to contribute to the evolutionary success of
vertebrates. However, the evolutionary routes to complex parenting and the role of parenting …

[PDF][PDF] Post-metamorphic body growth and remarkable longevity in Archey's frog and Hamilton's frog in New Zealand.

BD Bell, SA Pledger - New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 2023 - newzealandecology.org
Post-metamorphic body growth and longevity of two archaic terrestrial frogs (Anura:
Leiopelmatidae) endemic to New Zealand are described using data from long-term capture …

[图书][B] Amphibians of North Africa

D Escoriza, JB Hassine - 2019 - books.google.com
Amphibians of North Africa is a comprehensive compilation of available data on the
amphibians and reptiles found in various ecosystems across North West Africa and parts of …

Niche divergence of evolutionarily significant units with implications for repopulation programs of the world's largest amphibians

T Zhao, W Zhang, J Zhou, C Zhao, X Liu, Z Liu… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
The niche divergence and potential climate change-induced loss of evolutionarily significant
units (ESUs) of flagship amphibian species in China, the Chinese giant salamander clade …

Determining threatened species distributions in the face of limited data: Spatial conservation prioritization for the Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus)

S Chen, AA Cunningham, G Wei, J Yang… - Ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The purpose of this study was to determine whether limited occurrence data for highly
threatened species can provide useful spatial information to inform conservation. The study …

Morphological differentiation in giant salamanders, Andrias japonicus, A. davidianus, and their hybrids (Urodela, Cryptobranchidae), and its taxonomic implications.

S Hara, K Nishikawa, M Matsui, M Yoshimura - Zootaxa, 2023 - europepmc.org
For a long time, it has been debated whether the two giant salamanders, Andrias japonicus
from Japan and A. davidianus from China, are conspecific or heterospecific. Morphological …