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Migrating common toads (Bufo bufo) in rural temperate regions: reservoirs of Salmonella? Universiteit Gent
Host niche may determine disease-driven extinction risk Universiteit Gent
Environmental predation of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis determines infection dynamics Universiteit Gent
Waterfowl: potential environmental reservoirs of the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Universiteit Gent
Coping with the extremes : comparative osteology of the tepui-associated toad Oreophrynella and its bearing on the evolution of osteological novelties in the genus Universiteit Gent
The only study of the osteology of the toad genus Oreophrynella dates back to 1971 and was based on a single species. Here, we use high-resolution X-ray microcomputed tomography to analyse the osteology of all nine described Oreophrynella species, which are compared with representatives of other bufonid lineages. Oreophrynella is unique among bufonids in having opposable digits. Osteological synapomorphies confirmed for the genus are as follows: ...
Transitions from water to land Universiteit Antwerpen
Several species of fish live at the interface between water and land, and have evolved ways to cope with the problems of an ancestrally aquatic feeding system that needs to function on land. Studies of the kinematics of terrestrial feeding by these amphibious fishes allow us to identify the mechanical challenges and solutions to successfully make this environmental transition. In turn, this can help us to generate hypotheses on the evolutionary ...
Selecting predictors for discriminant analysis of species performance Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek Universiteit Gent
Paleoenvironmental implications of Permo-Triassic geographic shift in oxygen stable isotope (δ18Op) from tetrapod bone in the South African Karoo Basin Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Beaufort Group of the Main Karoo Basin of South Africa provides an uninterrupted record of fluvio-lacustrine
sedimentation from the Middle Permian to the Middle Triassic and covers an area of approximately 200,000 km2,
about 20% of the country’s surface area. A diverse range of vertebrate taxa including fish, therapsids, amphibians,
archosauromorphs and parareptiles, has been recovered from this rock succession and ...
sedimentation from the Middle Permian to the Middle Triassic and covers an area of approximately 200,000 km2,
about 20% of the country’s surface area. A diverse range of vertebrate taxa including fish, therapsids, amphibians,
archosauromorphs and parareptiles, has been recovered from this rock succession and ...
Biodiversity Express Survey Salonga National Park DRC December 2022 Universiteit Antwerpen
Salonga National Park is positioned in the central Congo Basin, covering a vast area in excess of 3.5 million ha of lowland Guinea-Congolian rainforest. It comprises the largest rainforest reserve in Africa, and second largest in the world. The principal aim of the project was to undertake a multiple taxa biodiversity assessment, with special attention to biological communities that have received relatively little attention. We undertook ...