Environmental Drivers of Local Demography and Size Plasticity in Fire Salamanders ().

Conspecific amphibian populations may vary widely in local demography and average body size throughout their geographical range. The environmental drivers of variation may reflect geographical gradients or local habitat quality. Among fire salamander populations (), local demography shows a limited range of variation because high concentrations of skin toxins reduce mortality from predation to a minimum, whereas average adult body size varies significantly over a wide range.

Species Assembly of Highland Anuran Communities in Equatorial Africa (Virunga Massif): Soundscape, Acoustic Niches, and Partitioning.

The soundscape is a complex arrangement of sounds originating from animals and the environment. It is considered a reliable proxy for ecosystem niche structure at the community level. Acoustic communities of anuran species include advertising males, which compete in acoustic space for conspecific females.

Hemoparasites Do Not Affect Life-History Traits and Cellular Immune Response in Treefrog Hosts .

We provide the first evidence for hemoparasites in the endemic Cordoba treefrog . We collected 37 adult frogs at 1200 m a.s.

Diversity of Water Frogs spp. in Turkey: Do Mating Vocalizations Mirror Nominal Taxon Delimitation?

Informed conservation management requires exact knowledge on the species diversity of the taxon group in focus within a geographic area, specifically on the occurrence of endemics. In Turkey, there are three water frog taxa of the genus ; one is the widespread , the other two are geographically restricted to either Thrace () or to the Anatolian Lake district (). The species status of the Beyşehir frog has been questioned since its proposal in 2001.

A Unified Approach to Analysis of Body Condition in Green Toads.

Body condition is increasingly used to assess the status of populations and as a proxy for individual fitness. A common, quick and non-invasive approach is to estimate condition from the relation between body length and mass. Among the methods developed for this purpose, the Scaled Mass Index (SMI) appears best suited for comparisons among populations.