Springtime Emergence of Overwintering Toads,Anaxyrus fowleri, in Relation to Environmental Factors
| Autor: | Elizabeth Das, David M. Green, Taylor Green |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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0106 biological sciences
education.field_of_study biology Ecology 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology Population Climate change Aquatic Science biology.organism_classification 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Lunar Cycle Anaxyrus Lunar phase Dormancy Animal Science and Zoology Precipitation education Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Overwintering |
| Zdroj: | Copeia. 104:393-401 |
| ISSN: | 1938-5110 0045-8511 |
| DOI: | 10.1643/ce-15-323 |
| Popis: | Although the timing of amphibians' spring emergence following winter dormancy may vary under the influence of climate change, the behavior of the animals should be more directly a response to the weather and/or other immediate stimuli and may be expected to show some population-level consistencies independent of timing. As such, there should be particular conditions of temperature, precipitation, wind, and/or phase of the lunar cycle at the onset of surface activity in a terrestrially hibernating anuran that may quantitatively differ from prior environmental conditions. Based on 24 years of data from a northern population of Fowler's Toads, we found that the springtime emergence of the toads is associated with increased temperature, relatively little rainfall or wind, and a gibbous moon. This remains true whether the toads emerge relatively early or late in spring. However, the toads' need for warmer temperatures to emerge for the first time in the year appears to significantly decrease the longer they ha... |
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