Recent concern about amphibian declines has created a need for practical and effective sampling methods that will allow biologists to monitor populations. Aquatic funnel traps may provide an effective ...

With amphibian populations declining around the world and funds to find the causes scarce, a team of researchers has shown that an unorthodox tactic will make it easier and therefore less expensive to ...

Populations of frogs, salamanders and other amphibians are declining around the world—even in protected areas, like U.S. national parks. Ecologists needed a simple method to track the animals’ numbers ...

Larval stream salamanders are the numerically dominant predators in many headwater stream systems. Nonetheless, little is known about their activity patterns or the extent to which their movements are ...

Past studies found that baiting traps with glow sticks increased the capture rates of larval amphibians two to eight times compared to funnel traps with no lure, but no studies have tested the ...