2.A wedge-shaped, horny prominence in the sole of a horse's hoof. 3.A loop fastened to a belt to hold a tool or weapon. 4.An ornamental looped braid or cord with a button or knot for fastening the front of a garment. 5.A device on intersecting railroad tracks that permits wheels...
Frogs of Southern Western AustraliaMain, Albert Russell
tree frog,tree toad,tree-frog- arboreal amphibians usually having adhesive disks at the tip of each toe; of southeast Asia and Australia and America Acris,genus Acris- cricket frogs Acris crepitans,northern cricket frog- a cricket frog of eastern and central United States ...
However, as we’ve already seen, there are indications that things are more complicated than this. The frogs seem to benefit through their association with a large, formidable predator: presumably, the risk of predation from snakes and so on is lessened thanks to the presence of the spider, ...
Range extensions and notes on the biology of frogs from the Pilbara Region, Western AustraliaMain, A RStorr, G M
Frogs and Toads (Order Anura) True Toads (Family Bufonidae) The true toad family contains about 400 living species that are distributed throughout the world with the exception of Australia (other than one introduced species, Bufo marinus), Madagascar, and very cold regions. True toads are genera...
An Upper Pliocene lacustrine environmental record from south-Western Australia — preliminary results A crater created by a supposed meteor impact and located about 30.5掳S latitude in Western Australia contains a well-preserved lake sequence of the Upper P... JR Dodson,A Ramrath - 《Palaeogeography...
(Hyla arborea) reached Central and Western Europe across the Danube valley. East of the Vistula, in Poland and Ukraine, occurs the other species, Hyla orientalis, that has spread to the north from northern Turkey and Asia Minor around the Black Sea and then colonized east around the ...
In the western United States, a general decline of frog populations parallels an ap... R Boyer,CE Grue - 《Environmental Health Perspectives》 被引量: 303发表: 1995年 Frogs of Vietnam Amphibians are considered reliable indicators of environmental quality. In the western United States, a general...
In the montane rainforests of eastern Australia, at least 14 species of frogs that breed in, and live near, streams have declined dramatically during the past 15 years. I explored the hypothesis that atypical weather was wholly or partly responsible for these declines, using a computerized weather...