Thursday
18Feb2010
Snakes interrupted: roads causing genetic decline
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Research Briefs | Feb 18, 2010
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Monday
01Feb2010
Monday
04Jan2010
The risk of exotic reptile imports invading Florida
in Research Briefs | Jan 4, 2010
Research Briefs | Jan 4, 2010 The recent explosive growth in the exotic reptile trade in Florida has raised serious concerns about species establishing in the wild and causing harm to ecosystems and human safety. To help us understand which exotic reptiles pose the greatest threat, researchers have identified risk factors that make certain species more likely to invade...
Thursday
03Dec2009
Friday
27Nov2009
Extinction in our times - global amphibian decline: book review
in Books | Nov 27, 2009
Books | Nov 27, 2009 
In the early 1970s, Cynthia Carey was writing her doctoral dissertation on boreal toads when a mysterious bacteria contaminated the Colorado population she was studying. Soon, she could only find dead carcasses. What she assumed was a strike of bad luck and a strictly local phenomenon was in fact occurring all over the world...read more
Sunday
15Nov2009
Can wildlife farming save rare animals from being hunted to extinction?
in Research Briefs | Nov 15, 2009
Research Briefs | Nov 15, 2009 Wildlife farming in Southeast Asia has emerged as a potential conservation tool for rare and threatened species that are regularly poached in the wild primarily for upscale consumers in urban markets. But a new study finds that it has unintended negative consequences...read more
Wednesday
04Nov2009
Wednesday
02Sep2009
Can golf courses provide good habitat?
in Research Briefs | Sep 2, 2009
Research Briefs | Sep 2, 2009 
As golf courses have spread across the world, researchers investigate whether they can provide good habitat for frogs and other wetland fauna in urban areas...read more
Monday
17Aug2009
Do created wetlands aid amphibian conservation?
in Research Briefs | Aug 17, 2009
Research Briefs | Aug 17, 2009 
A new study published in Conservation Biology looks at the effect of created wetlands on amphibian breeding success in suburban and forested areas...read more
Thursday
13Aug2009
