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HERPETOLOGICAL JOURNAL
卷 31, 期 4, 页码 197-201出版社
BRITISH HERPETOL SOC
DOI: 10.33256/31.4.197200
关键词
Amphibian; Bufo spinosus; breeding; conservation; reproductive success
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资金
- CNRS
- Agence de l'Eau Loire-Bretagne
- Agence de l'Eau Adour-Garonne
- Region Nouvelle-Aquitaine [2017-1R20110, 2018-1R20214, 2019-1R20216]
- Conseil Departemental des Deux-Sevres
- ANSES (BiodiTox project) [2019/1/031]
- CPER Econat
This study compared the breeding parameters of spined toad populations in forested and agricultural habitats, finding that reproduction was not successful in agricultural sites. The observations suggest that habitat-specific lack of reproduction could have critical consequences for the persistence of this amphibian species in agricultural areas.
Anthropogenic alterations of habitats can have detrimental consequences for biodiversity. Documenting these effects require monitoring in multiple sites that vary in the degree of alterations over long temporal scales, a task that is challenging. Yet, simple naturalist observations can reveal major ongoing events affecting wild populations, and serve as a basis for further investigations. We quantified breeding parameters of spined toad (Bufo spinosus) populations from forested (preserved) and agricultural (altered) habitats. We found that reproduction did not occur at the sites surrounded by agriculture, while it occurred successfully in ponds from forests. Males were present at all sites, but females, amplexus, egg strings and tadpoles remained absent from agricultural sites. Observations made at the same sites indicated that breeding occurred during previous years. Our observations of habitat- and sex-specific lack of reproduction may have critical consequences for the persistence of populations of a widespread amphibian species in agricultural areas.
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