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- Title
What's Slithering Around on Your School Grounds?
- Authors
Tomasek, Terry M.; Matthews, Catherine E.; Hall, Jeff
- Abstract
The article focuses on the protocols used in an ongoing research project on amphibian and reptile diversity at Cool Springs Environmental Education Center near New Bern, North Carolina. Four protocols have been utilized to capture and compile a list of reptiles and amphibians. These protocols can be duplicated to some degree on almost any school site with some small acreage. Such a study can be conducted with students of almost any age group, providing them with opportunities to conduct scientific research. In the late 1980s scientists came to realize that certain frog populations were declining and some species had declined to the point of extinction. Is this a natural fluctuation or have human impacts been the cause of the decline. As humans continue to alter the environment with such practices as draining wetlands, constructing new impoundments introducing exotic species or building new homes and industries, it is not well known how amphibian and reptile populations will he impacted.
- Subjects
AMPHIBIANS; ACTIVITY programs in environmental education; HERPETOLOGY; ANIMAL populations; WILDLIFE management; ZOOLOGY
- Publication
American Biology Teacher (National Association of Biology Teachers), 2005, Vol 67, Issue 7, p419
- ISSN
0002-7685
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/4451876