A combination of environmental and landscape variables drives movement and habitat use in two Anaxyrus toads
Alexander M. Ferentinos, Courtney E. Check, Olivia Windorf, Matthias Leu · 2025
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Alexander Ferentinos, Courtney Check, Olivia Windorf, and Matthias Leu track two toad species as they leave their breeding ponds in a 2025 study. Knowing how far amphibians travel after breeding helps set the size of protected habitat. Past work stressed weather as the driver of movement, but landscape and habitat may matter as much.
The team followed about a hundred toads in Virginia with radio and signal-finding tools across three years. Both species moved a median of about sixty-three meters from the ponds. Warm nights, rain, conifer cover, and distance from water all made movement more likely. The toads returned to chosen daily shelters and used human trails in ways that suggest feeding there. The authors say current protection zones are too small to match these movements.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Alexander M. Ferentinos, Courtney E. Check, Olivia Windorf, Matthias Leu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |