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Metal nanoparticle-induced effects on green toads (Amphibia, Anura) under climate change: conservation implications
The toxicity of aluminum oxide (Al2O3), copper oxide (CuO), iron oxide (Fe3O4), nickel oxide (NiO), zinc oxide (ZnO), and titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles (NPs) on amphibians and their interaction with high ...
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Climatic niche dynamics in the invasive nutria, Myocastor coypus: global assessment under climate change
Nutria, Myocastor coypus, native to South America, is one of the world's worst invasive mammals, having major ecological and economic consequences. We evaluated the realized climatic niches of nutria in their nat...
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Marsh frog response to urea fertilizer during the embryonic, larval, and metamorphosis stages: a new perspective into urea toxicity on amphibians
Amphibian populations are declining worldwide. These declines are caused by a variety of factors, one of which is the use of fertilizers in agriculture. This is especially true for tadpoles, which may develop ...
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Climatic Niche Divergence and Conservatism Promote Speciation in Snake-Eyed Skinks (Sauria: Scincidae): New Insight into the Evolution and Diversification of Ablepharus Species
The degree to which closely related species conserve or diverge in their niche characteristics may provide insight into evolutionary and diversification processes, as well as some understanding of broad-scale ...
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Diversity, diversification and distribution of Iranian vertebrates: the legacy of mountains uplifting, past climatic oscillations, sea level fluctuations and geographical barriers
Identifying historical drivers of biodiversity distribution patterns is a central issue in ecology and biogeography. Iran is a biodiversity-rich country in southwestern Asia. It is known that past events like ...
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The role of climatic niche divergence in the speciation of the genus Neurergus: An inter-and intraspecific survey
Variations in climatic conditions over space and time play an important role in speciation. In this study, climate variables that may be influencing the evolution of the genus Neurergus were explored at both inte...
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Open AccessResponse of Iranian lizards to future climate change by poleward expansion, southern contraction, and elevation shifts
This study explores the relationships between recent Iranian lizard species distributions and the observed climate, as well as potential future distributions of species. For this purpose, an ensemble of seven ...
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Interactions Between Ecological Factors in the Development and Survival of Bufotes variabilis: Resilience to Change
Invasive species and climate change are important factors in amphibian declines. Climate change mediates impacts on water level fluctuations and amphibian densities. In this study, the interaction effects of i...
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Dynamics of threatened mammalian distribution in Iran’s protected areas under climate change
Iran has a diverse range of mammals. Climate change can alter the species' range, leading to expansion or contraction and affect the IUCN threatened species' distribution. We assessed the effects of climate ch...
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Changes in food availability mediate the effects of temperature on growth, metamorphosis and survival in endangered yellow spotted mountain newt: implications for captive breeding programs
The effects of temperature and food levels on body size, growth rate, time to metamorphosis and survival were studied in larval and post-metamorphic juvenile endangered yellow spotted mountain newts Neurergus mic...
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Variation in ectoparasite load in the Mehely’s horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus mehelyi (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae) in a nursery colony in western Iran
We studied variation of ectoparasite load in a free ranging populations of Mehely’s horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus mehelyi) on five successive occasions in a nursery roost in western Iran. In total, 87 Rhinolophus me...
