We review and discuss current knowledge about sex determination in amphibians. The
astonishing wide variety of mechanisms of genotypic sex determination is presented and …

Following a request from EFSA, the Panel on Plant Protection Products and their Residues
developed an opinion on the science to support the potential development of a risk …

Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain the direction and extent of sexual size
dimorphism in anurans (in which males are usually smaller than females) as a result of …

Skeletochronology has been widely and successfully used to age temperate amphibians,
enabling geographic comparisons of longevity and the age at maturity. To date, however …

Rédigé par un collectif des meilleurs batrachologues français, belges et luxembourgeois, ce
livre sur les amphibiens de France, Belgique et Luxembourg (accompagné de son CD …

Compared to other vertebrate groups, movement patterns and microhabitat use in
amphibians has been little studied. The two goals of this study were (1) to compare two …

Ponds—small, isolated freshwater bodies—have vanished in large numbers during the last
decades. Despite such great loss, the number of natural small water bodies has still …

Urbanization impacts biodiversity both directly through physical expansion over land, and
indirectly due to land use conversion and human behaviors associated with urban areas …

Pelobates fuscus is a fossorial amphibian that inhabits much of the European plain areas.
To unveil traces of expansion and contraction events of the species' range, we sequenced …

We investigated age structure by skeletochronology in two breeding populations of Triturus
vittatus ophryticus inhabiting altitudes ranging from 300 m (in Gurbulak) to 1300 m (in …