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Predicting diversity within hotspots to enhance conservation

With limited funding and an inadequate number of scientists, governments in countries containing "hotspots" of threatened biodiversity are wrestling with how to protect plants and animals i...

Ecology, The Environment and Conservation |

Red-eyed treefrog embryos actively avoid asphyxiation inside their eggs

Red-eyed treefrogs, Agalychnis callidryas, lay jelly-covered egg clutches on leaves overhanging tropical ponds. Each clutch of several dozen transparent eggs is ready to hatch after only four days. ...

Life Sciences |

Reproductive plasticity revealed: Neotropical treefrog can choose to lay eggs in water or on land

When frogs reproduce, like all vertebrates, they either lay their eggs in water or on land – with one exception, according to new research by a team of Boston University scientists who discovered a tr...

Life Sciences |

More species in the tropics because species have been there longer

Many researchers have hypothesized that climatic factors somehow cause species to originate more quickly in tropical regions. In a paper appearing in the November issue of The American Naturalist, Joh...

Ecology, The Environment and Conservation |

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