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Hey everyone, I thought I'd do a thread about our new Open Access paper: "Landscape and management factors influence the occupancy dynamics of sympatric salamanders in an urban preserve system"! doi.org/10.1016/j.gecc… 1/19
#ambystoma #chicago #urban_ecology #salamander @LCFPD
#ambystoma #chicago #urban_ecology #salamander @LCFPD
In this paper, we analyzed a decade of long-term monitoring data from nature preserves in the suburbs of Chicago, Lake County. Specifically, we looked at two species: (A): Blue-spotted Salamander (Ambystoma laterale) and (B): Eastern Tiger Salamander (A. tigrinum). 2/19
Salamanders are poorly represented in the urban ecology literature, and our study site is a great place to study urban salamanders. Why? Lake County is one of the mostly densely populated counties in the United States! If that's not urban, I don't know what is! 3/19
May the new year be as productive and exciting as the ponds in which mole #salmanders reproduce!
#Herp -y (early) New Year! 🥳
#NewYearsEve
(Made with a 2 year old’s crayons😂)
#Herp -y (early) New Year! 🥳
#NewYearsEve
(Made with a 2 year old’s crayons😂)
Fun take on the #biology of the Demogorgon on #StrangerThings !
Demogorgons develop front limbs first. Interestingly, that’s how some #salamanders develop too!
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Demogorgons develop front limbs first. Interestingly, that’s how some #salamanders develop too!
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#Salamanders in the family #Ambystoma (aka mole salamanders) develop their front limbs first as well!
Here is a young marbled salamander #larva showing off its front limbs & frilly external gills.
Here is a young marbled salamander #larva showing off its front limbs & frilly external gills.
But for #frogs we see the back limbs developing first.
Cool #FrogFacts :
The back legs are visible as they develop on a #tadpole , but the front are hidden under a layer of skin (the operculum).
As the tadpole develops, they BURST out through the skin!
Aliens style 😉
Cool #FrogFacts :
The back legs are visible as they develop on a #tadpole , but the front are hidden under a layer of skin (the operculum).
As the tadpole develops, they BURST out through the skin!
Aliens style 😉
Behold! A hatchling blue-spotted #salamander (<24 hrs hatched).
In anticipation of #fieldwork with later stage #ambystoma larvae, here's a quick #herpetology quiz:
See those straight things sticking out of its head and downward. What do you think they are? Poll is👇
In anticipation of #fieldwork with later stage #ambystoma larvae, here's a quick #herpetology quiz:
See those straight things sticking out of its head and downward. What do you think they are? Poll is👇
What are those things sticking out of this #salamander #larva 's head and downward?
There are 4 days on the poll. Tune back in later this week for the answer!
Happy end to first attempt at trapping blue spotted #salamanders (Ambystoma laterale) during #fieldwork in #Minnesota.
This good looking male (see the swollen cloacal region posterior to hind legs) was caught at a pond where we had previously found eggs but not adults.
This good looking male (see the swollen cloacal region posterior to hind legs) was caught at a pond where we had previously found eggs but not adults.
Things I have learned:
- I'm still agile in chest waders 💪
- Blue-spots will lay eggs that are individually attached to vegetation/leaf litter (rather than in clumps, which is what I'm used to with other species of #Ambystoma #salamanders )
- I'm still agile in chest waders 💪
- Blue-spots will lay eggs that are individually attached to vegetation/leaf litter (rather than in clumps, which is what I'm used to with other species of #Ambystoma #salamanders )
🤞that we have luck in a week or so with tiger #salamanders & their eggs! If anyone has photos of tiger sal eggs in situ, we'd appreciate seeing them!
#HERper #herpetology #fieldwork #amphibians
#HERper #herpetology #fieldwork #amphibians
