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funkyfrogoftheday · 3 years
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today's funky frog of the day: the scrawny stubfoot toad (Atelopus longirostris)! not only is this friend super adorable, they also have an amazing story! between 1989 and 2016, this frog was considered to be extinct. however, in 2016, they found more specimens and a breeding program was established in the hopes of replenishing the population!
photo by Luis Aurelio Coloma
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Project 2 Research
Background Research: 
Look at the documentation of nature 
Effects of Global Warming 
Journal of Ecology: Documenting effects of urbanisation on flora using herbarium records 
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01820.x
Key Points 
2. We compare historical species records (prior to 1940) with the current flora for Marion County, Indiana, USA, home to Indianapolis, the 13th largest city in the United States. Specimens from the Friesner Herbarium of Butler University and other vouchered records for the county provided the basis for historical records. Current records are derived from inventories of 16 sites conducted by Herbarium staff and other botanists over the past 15 years.
4. The last 70 years have seen a significant turnover in species presence, most notably a decrease in native plant species number (2.4 per year) and quality, with an accompanying increase in non-native plants of 1.4 per year. Loss of species has been non-random, with a disproportionate number of high-quality wetland plants lost. The signature of past land use can be seen in physiognomic changes in the composition of the flora that reflect the shift from agriculture to urban ⁄ suburban land use.
5. Many invasive non-native shrubs now present have escaped from cultivation, highlighting the combined threats of habitat conversion and human plant preference to native flora in cities. These invasives likely present the greatest threat to remaining biodiversity.
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10 species most at risk from climent change  
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/19/critical-10-species-at-risk-climate-change-endangered-world
Key Points 
Staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) is experiencing disastrous declines in its range in the southern Gulf of Mexico, Florida and the Bahamas, declining by up to 98% in parts of the Caribbean since the 1980s. It is listed as “critically endangered” on the IUCN red list
Since 2005, the Caribbean region has lost 50% of its corals, largely because of rising sea temperatures and mass bleaching incidents which have killed coral around the world. Species such as the orange-spotted filefish are completely dependent on coral reefs, and highly sensitive to warmer water.
Homo sapiens is not dependant on the coral reefs but their loss would be a devastating and demoralising indictment of our era, and the destructiveness of our species. “We’ll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we’ve lost in the last 65 million years,” environmentalist Paul Watson, the founder of Sea Shepherd, has pointed out. “If we don’t find answers to these problems, we’re gonna be victims of this extinction event that we’re at fault for.”
Ring seal reproductive rates are already showing declines associated with climate change. Hundreds of pups are usually born each year on the fjords along the west coast of Svalbard but pups were “virtually non-existent” in 2006 and 2007, when many fjords did not freeze for the first time in recorded history.
It is also just one furry symbol of the “ecological catastrophe” that scientists warn will soon befall thousands of species who will find that Australia’s tropical rainforests offer them no shelter in an era of warming.
+7 Species Hit Hard by Climate Change—Including One That's Already Extinct
+https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/03/140331-global-warming-climate-change-ipcc-animals-science-environment/
Key Points
1- Orange-spotted filefish (Oxymonacanthus longirostris)
2- Quiver tree (Aloe dichotoma)
3- Polar bear
4- Adélie penguin
5- North Atlantic cod
6- Acropora cervicornis and coral worldwide
7- EXTINCT: Golden toad (Bufo periglenes). Along with the Monteverde harlequin frog (Atelopus varius)
From this Research: 
I am inspired to work with the idea of documenting flowers and species. Along with this I also want to look at the animals and coral that are being badly affected by our bad habits. Hopefully, I can work with the idea of layers and building up the images to combine these together, also maybe play with the idea of video
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orionik · 6 years
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Dibujo de una Rana Arlequín {Atelopus Longirostris} También conocido como rana payaso, rana arlequin, sapo arlequin, sapo pintado, rana de lluvia o rana pintada {Atelopus varius}.
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