A comprehensive review of the effects of roads on salamanders

AE Ochs, RK Swihart, MR Saunders - Landscape Ecology, 2024 - Springer
Context Road expansion has raised concerns regarding road effects on wildlife and
ecosystems within the landscape. Salamanders, critical ecosystem components and …

Acute Ecotoxicity Potential of Untreated Tannery Wastewater Release in Arequipa, Southern Peru

K Tejada-Meza, A Arenazas-Rodríguez… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
The centralized Rio Seco Industrial Park (RSIP) tannery collective in the Southern Peruvian
city of Arequipa releases untreated tannery wastewater into a proximal creek that is a …

Human activities disrupt the temporal dynamics of salinity in Spanish rivers

AJ Moyano Salcedo, E Estévez, H Salvadó, J Barquín… - Hydrobiologia, 2023 - Springer
Human activities are not only increasing salinization of rivers, they might also be altering the
temporal dynamics of salinity. Here, we assess the effect of human activities on the temporal …

Desalination of municipal wastewater using forward osmosis

EO Ezugbe, E Kweinor Tetteh, S Rathilal… - Membranes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Membrane technology has gained much ground in water and wastewater treatment over the
past couple of decades. This is timely, as the world explores smart, eco-friendly, and cheap …

Energy-related wastewater contamination alters microbial communities of sediment, water, and amphibian skin

BJ Tornabene, KL Smalling, CE Givens, EB Oja… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
To inform responsible energy development, it is important to understand the ecological
effects of contamination events. Wastewaters, a common byproduct of oil and gas extraction …

Individual and mutual effects of elevated carbon dioxide and temperature on salt and cadmium uptake and translocation by rice seedlings

YX Feng, P Tian, CZ Li, Q Zhang, S Trapp… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Plant kingdoms are facing increasingly harsh environmental challenges marked by the
coexposure of salinity and pollution in the pedosphere and elevated CO2 and temperature …

Comparative effects of energy‐related saline wastewaters and sodium chloride on hatching, survival, and fitness‐associated traits of two amphibian species

BJ Tornabene, CW Breuner… - Environmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Salinity (sodium chloride [NaCl]) is a prevalent and persistent contaminant that
negatively affects freshwater ecosystems. Although most studies focus on effects of salinity …

Corticosterone mediates a growth‐survival tradeoff for an amphibian exposed to increased salinity

BJ Tornabene, BR Hossack, EJ Crespi… - … Zoology Part A …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Life‐history tradeoffs are common across taxa, but growth‐survival tradeoffs—usually
enhancing survival at a cost to growth—are less frequently investigated. Increased salinity …

Evaluating corticosterone as a biomarker for amphibians exposed to increased salinity and ambient corticosterone

BJ Tornabene, BR Hossack, EJ Crespi… - Conservation …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Physiological biomarkers are commonly used to assess the health of taxa exposed to
natural and anthropogenic stressors. Glucocorticoid (GC) hormones are often used as …

Testing whether adrenal steroids mediate phenotypic and physiologic effects of elevated salinity on larval tiger salamanders

BJ Tornabene, EJ Crespi, CW Breuner… - Integrative …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Salinity (sodium chloride, NaCl) from anthropogenic sources is a persistent contaminant that
negatively affects freshwater taxa. Amphibians can be susceptible to salinity, but some …