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JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY
卷 56, 期 1, 页码 60-66出版社
SOC STUDY AMPHIBIANS REPTILES
DOI: 10.1670/20-123
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- National Science Foundation
- National Science Foundation [1754474]
- Division Of Environmental Biology
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1754474] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
This study experimentally tests the effects of salinity and temperature conditions experienced as larvae on the behavioral and physiological responses of juvenile Wood Frogs (Lithobates sylvaticus). The results show that Wood Frogs can detect and respond to salinity levels in terrestrial habitats, and this response depends on the environmental conditions experienced during the larval stage.
Anthropogenic salinization is a pervasive pollutant in much of the northeastern United States because of the widespread use of chemical deicing agents on roads. Although studies have examined the physiological effects of salinization on amphibians across life stages, behavioral responses to salinization of habitats are less studied. In this study, we experimentally test how salinity and temperature conditions experienced as larvae affect behavioral and physiological responses as juveniles. We first experimentally test whether juvenile Wood Frogs (Lithobates sylvaticus) can detect and avoid road salt in terrestrial soils and whether this avoidance behavior differs depending on temperature and salinity conditions in which individuals were raised as larvae. We also experimentally test whether temperature and salinity conditions experienced as larvae affect desiccation rates in juvenile Wood Frogs. We found a significant correlation between larval salinity conditions and choice of soil, with frogs raised in high salt aquatic conditions spending the majority of time on high salinity soils and frogs raised in low salt aquatic conditions spending the majority of time on low salinity soils. This behavioral response was muted in frogs raised in elevated temperature conditions. We were unable to detect a correlation between larval treatment and desiccation rate. Our experiments demonstrate that Wood Frogs can detect and respond to salinity levels in terrestrial habitats and that this juvenile response depends on environmental conditions experienced as larvae.
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