Small freshwater ponds host diverse and vulnerable biotic assemblages but relatively few conspicuous, specially protected taxa. In Europe, the amphibians Triturus cristatus and Pelobates fuscus are among a few species whose populations have been successfully restored using pond restoration and management activities at the landscape scale. In this study, we explored whether the ponds constructed...

The role of a buccal gas bubble, held while performing aquatic surface respiration (ASR; ventilating the gills with surface water during hypoxia), was examined in benthic, intertidal Australian gobies (Favonigobius tamarensis, F. exquisitus, Pseudogobius olorum, Chlamydogobius sp., Mugilogobius paludis, Cryptocentroides cristatus and Arenigobius bifrenatus). Analyses of the forces of lift and w...

In the marine environment, climatic changes are asymmetrically altering the phenologies of species at different trophic levels, causing an increase in the severity of mismatching between predators and their prey. At Triangle Island (British Columbia, Canada), the zooplanktivorous seabird Cassin’s auklet Ptychoramphus aleuticus breeds less successfully in warm-water years than in coldwater years...