Sentence examples for amphibians using from inspiring English sources

We modelled the distribution range for 176 Mexican endemics amphibians using 19 world climatic environmental variables [58], spatial layers for topography, slope and topoindex from 0.01° U.S. Geological Survey's Hydro-1K [59], and a maximum entropy model approach, MaxEnt [60].

The authors reported that the pesticide mixture had a much greater effect on these developmental parameters than did the individual chemicals; they concluded that estimating ecologic risk of pesticides on amphibians using studies that examine single pesticides may lead to gross underestimates of the role of pesticides in amphibian declines.

Others have studied the effects of atrazine on larval amphibians using atrazine levels ranging from 0.01 to 47,600 ppb (Allran and Karasov 2000; Detenbeck et al. 1996; Hayes et al. 2002; Howe et al. 1998; Larson et al. 1998), but none have reported the survivorship patterns observed in our study.

He pointed to the fact that between 23% and 36% of all birds, mammals, and amphibians used for food or medicine are now threatened with extinction.

Amphibians use wetlands in urban and agricultural landscapes for breeding, growth and development.

Effective conservation of amphibian populations requires the prediction of how amphibians use and move through a landscape.

PPP could also contribute to the decline, because amphibians use different habitats due to their complex life cycle and annual cycle.

Other amphibians use camouflage to avoid being detected.

Amphibians use their skin as a secondary respiratory surface and some small terrestrial salamanders and frogs lack lungs and rely entirely on their skin.

Amphibians use many different organs for gas exchange throughout their lives.

A large number of amphibians use chemical cues for navigation (Sinsch, 1990; Schulte et al., 2011) and predator detection (Flowers & Graves, 1997), both in aquatic and terrestrial environments.