Topic
Mountain frog
About: Mountain frog is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 6 publications have been published within this topic receiving 347 citations. The topic is also known as: Philoria kundagungan & Red and yellow mountain frog.
Papers
TL;DR: Together, these experiments illustrate that introduced trout are effective predators on R. muscosa tadpoles and suggest that the introduction of trout is the most likely mechanism responsible for the decline of this mountain frog and that these negative effects can be reversed.
Abstract: Amphibian population declines and extinctions are occurring even in the world's least impacted areas. The introduction and spread of nonnative predators is one of many proposed causes of amphibian declines. Correlational studies have shown a negative relationship between introduced fishes and declining amphibians, but little direct experimental evidence is available. This study experimentally manipulated the presence and absence of widely introduced salmonids rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) to test the hypothesis that their introduction has contributed to the decline of the mountain yellow-legged frog (Rana muscosa). From 1996 to 2003, the introduced trout were removed from 5 lakes in a remote protected area of the Sierra Nevada, and 16 nearby lakes were used as controls, 8 with introduced trout and 8 without. To determine the vulnerable life stage, rainbow trout were placed in cages in three lakes containing amphibians. Removal of introduced trout resulted in rapid recovery of frog populations, and, in the caging experiment, tadpoles were found to be vulnerable to trout predation. Together, these experiments illustrate that introduced trout are effective predators on R. muscosa tadpoles and suggest (i) that the introduction of trout is the most likely mechanism responsible for the decline of this mountain frog and (ii) that these negative effects can be reversed.
307 citations
Journal Article•
TL;DR: R. tavasensis represents a new host record for each of the observed helminth species in Turkey, and all 8 frogs were infected with 1 or more helminths.
Abstract: A total of 8 specimens of Rana tavasensis Baran & Atatur, 1986 (Tavas frog) were collected in Denizli Province (inner-west Anatolia, or the eastern part of the Aegean region), Turkey, in 2008 and 2009 and were examined for the first time for helminths. All 8 frogs were infected with 1 or more helminths. The helminth fauna of R. tavasensis comprised 3 species: 1 species of Digenea [Haplometra cylindracea (Zeder, 1800) Looss, 1899], 1 species of Nematoda [Cosmocerca ornata (Dujardin, 1845)], and 1 species of Acanthocephala [Acanthocephalus ranae (Schrank, 1788) Luhe, 1911)]. R. tavasensis represents a new host record for each of the observed helminth species in Turkey.
16 citations
TL;DR: The results indicate that only two distinct mountain frog species inhabit Anatolia, and recommend that R. camerani from Mt Erciyes should be recognized as a synonym of R. macrocnemis.
Abstract: Three currently recognized species of Anatolian mountain frogs were analyzed for species boundaries. Meristic and proportional measurement data of three populations, including two topotypical ones, were evaluated using both univariate and discriminant analyses, and blood-serum samples were analyzed electrophoretically with polyacrylamide-disc electrophoresis. The results indicate that only two distinct mountain frog species inhabit Anatolia. We recommend that R. camerani from Mt Erciyes should be recognized as a synonym of R. macrocnemis.
12 citations
Patent•
24 Jun 2010
TL;DR: In this paper, a North Korean mountain frog breeding facility is provided to breed North Korean frogs and crickets together in a habitat space, and to prevent the crickets from the heavy rain.
Abstract: PURPOSE: A North Korean mountain frog breeding facility is provided to breed North Korean mountain frogs and crickets together in a habitat space, and to prevent the crickets from the heavy rain. CONSTITUTION: A north Korea mountain frog breeding facilities comprises a plurality of small green houses(110), a plurality of north Korean mountain frog habitat(120a,120b), a bottom part including one or more water pool(130), a lateral part covering the circumference of the bottom part, an upper surface part which is expended from the upper end of the lateral part and closes tightly the top of the bottom part, and a mesh opening/closing member loosed winding up and down the cover for opening and closing mesh. The end part of the small green house is included to the free end in order that the North Korea mountain frog and cricket come and go to inside and outside of the small green house.
7 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the iconic mountain frog Quasipaa boulengeri as an indicator species to extrapolate climate-driven shifts in its habitat availability and connectivity in central and southern China according to the minimum and maximum representative concentration pathways.
6 citations
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