In areas that see heavy snowfall and icy roads, road salt is used to improve driving conditions. However, after snow melts, road salt does not disappear. Instead, it dissolves into melted snow and flows into bodies of water where amphibians breed and live. Altering the salinity of the environment has been seen to affect different species of frogs. It is unclear, however, whether those findings generalize to other anurans. Here, we examined how exposure to road salt affects the development of green frog tadpoles (L. clamitans). We caught 80 L. clamitans tadpoles at the Ross Biological Reserve near Purdue University. We divided 60 tadpoles of average Gosner stage 37 into three treatments: control (well water), road salt (860 mg Cl/L), and an ...
Road salt runoff into aquatic habitats is a major ecological issue for amphibian species due to pote...
The amphibian chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) is a parasitic fungus that infects ...
The application of millions of tons of road deicing salts every winter in North America presents sig...
Road de-icing salts - primarily NaCl - are frequently used in the northern regions of the United Sta...
Deicing agents have been used to control ice build-up on roads in winter for at least five decades i...
The majority of the United States employs the use of road de-icing salts - primarily NaCl- during th...
Ecosystems are increasingly being exposed to anthropogenic stressors that could make animals and thu...
General EcologyThe physiology of frogs makes them good indicators of their surrounding environment. ...
Ecosystems are increasingly being exposed to anthropogenic stressors that could make animals and thu...
Ecosystems are increasingly being exposed to anthropogenic stressors that could make animals and thu...
Amphibians are highly susceptible to environmental degradation in the form of pollution and are ther...
Amphibians are highly vulnerable to aquatic pollutants. Due to the permeability of their skin and th...
Amphibians are highly vulnerable to aquatic pollutants. Due to the permeability of their skin and th...
Organisms are commonly exposed to numerous stressors that induce behavioral, physiological, or morph...
It has been postulated that road deicing salts are sufficiently diluted by spring rains to ameliorat...
Road salt runoff into aquatic habitats is a major ecological issue for amphibian species due to pote...
The amphibian chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) is a parasitic fungus that infects ...
The application of millions of tons of road deicing salts every winter in North America presents sig...
Road de-icing salts - primarily NaCl - are frequently used in the northern regions of the United Sta...
Deicing agents have been used to control ice build-up on roads in winter for at least five decades i...
The majority of the United States employs the use of road de-icing salts - primarily NaCl- during th...
Ecosystems are increasingly being exposed to anthropogenic stressors that could make animals and thu...
General EcologyThe physiology of frogs makes them good indicators of their surrounding environment. ...
Ecosystems are increasingly being exposed to anthropogenic stressors that could make animals and thu...
Ecosystems are increasingly being exposed to anthropogenic stressors that could make animals and thu...
Amphibians are highly susceptible to environmental degradation in the form of pollution and are ther...
Amphibians are highly vulnerable to aquatic pollutants. Due to the permeability of their skin and th...
Amphibians are highly vulnerable to aquatic pollutants. Due to the permeability of their skin and th...
Organisms are commonly exposed to numerous stressors that induce behavioral, physiological, or morph...
It has been postulated that road deicing salts are sufficiently diluted by spring rains to ameliorat...
Road salt runoff into aquatic habitats is a major ecological issue for amphibian species due to pote...
The amphibian chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) is a parasitic fungus that infects ...
The application of millions of tons of road deicing salts every winter in North America presents sig...