Relationship between anuran larvae occurrence and aquatic environment in septentrional east Palearctic landscapes
- 주제(키워드) anuran larvae , conductivity , Palearctic landscape , pH , salinity , septentrional Asia , species occurrence , vegetation , water biotic and abiotic properties
- 주제(기타) Zoology
- 설명문(일반) [Borzee, Amael] Nanjing Forestry Univ, Coll Biol & Environm, Lab Anim Behav & Conservat, Nanjing 210037, Peoples R China; [Kim, Ye Inn; Jang, Yikweon] Ewha Womans Univ, Dept Life Sci, Seoul 03760, South Korea; [Kim, Ye Inn; Jang, Yikweon] Ewha Womans Univ, Div EcoSci, Seoul 03760, South Korea; [Kim, Ye Inn] Korea Environm Inst, Div Integrated Water Management, Water & Land Res Grp, Sejong 30147, South Korea; [Purevdorj, Zoljargal] Mongolian State Univ Educ, Sch Math Nat Sci, Dept Biol, Ulaanbaatar 210685, Mongolia; [Purevdorj, Zoljargal] Chungnam Natl Univ, Dept Forest & Environm Resources, Daejeon 34134, South Korea; [Maslova, Irina] Russian Acad Sci, Far Eastern Branch, Fed Sci Ctr East Asia Terr Biodivers, Vladivostok 690022, Russia; [Schepina, Natalya] Russian Acad Sci, Geol Inst SB RAS, St Sakhyanova 6, Ulan Ude 670047, Russia
- 등재 SCIE, SCOPUS
- OA유형 gold, Green Published
- 발행기관 PENSOFT PUBLISHERS
- 발행년도 2021
- 총서유형 Journal
- URI http://www.dcollection.net/handler/ewha/000000190523
- 본문언어 영어
- Published As https://doi.org/10.3897/herpetozoa.34.e68577
초록/요약
The presence of amphibian larvae is restricted by both biotic and abiotic variables of the environment. Some of these variables are still undetermined in the septentrional eastern Palearctic where Rana amurensis, Strauchbufo raddei and Dryophytes japonicus are found in large numbers. In this study, we sampled 92 sites across Mongolia, Russia and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and measured biotic and abiotic water variables, as well as the height of flooded terrestrial and emergent aquatic vegetation at the breeding site. We determined that the presence of anuran larvae is generally, but not always, linked to pH and temperature. Rana amurensis was not significantly affected by any of the variables measured, while S. raddei was impacted by water conductivity and D. japonicus by pH, temperature and vegetation. Our results highlight a potential risk for these species due to the changes in aquatic variables in response to desertification.
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