Damian Lettoof
@LettsGetSnakes
CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellow researching the impact of PFAS and legacy metals on frogs, using an ‘omics and systems biology approach. All views are my own.
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11-05-2018 03:47:49
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Exciting news! The first call recording of the Tanami Toadlet (Uperoleia micromeles) has been made with the #FrogID app, 43 years since it was first described to science. Congrats to Dr Tim Henderson at Australian Wildlife Conservancy Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary! 🐸
australianwildlife.org/call-of-tiny-d…
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#petcats #safeathome #responsiblepetownership #cats
A ‘conservation conundrum’ – when rat control to conserve one species threatens another theconversation.com/a-conservation… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand
New research from Jodi Rowley and Damian Lettoof reveals that pesticides were present in more than one in three of the frogs tested.
But, the team don't believe pesticides were the main cause of the mass frog deaths.
Read the full story here: unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/…
Field ethologists, I highly recommend this bag for wildlife research. You could sit down anytime to score or record animal behavior. There’s an insulated cooler inside to keep the samples cool/equipment dry. This thing made my field days. 🏃♀️💚
#rainforestEEB #wildlifephotography
The state of academic publishing in 3 graphs, 6 trends, and 4 thoughts dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2024/04/29/the… via Dynamic Ecology
Among the poisons found in 36% of the frogs tested, rodenticide was detected for the first time.
As Jodi Rowley (@UNSW) + Damian Lettoof (@CSIRO) write, pesticides are considered a threat to hundreds of amphibian species. theconversation.com/we-found-pesti…
Broad-scale pesticide screening in livers from multiple frog species collected across NSW finds legacy pesticides and first detections of rat poison in amphibians! Very thankful to be invited to help with this research lead by Jodi Rowley and NSW DCCEEW
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
#Pesticides detected in 36% of Australian frogs, including Brodifacoum in 17% of the frogs. This is the first report of #rodenticides – chemicals meant to poison only rodents – in wild #frogs . Damian Lettoof
theconversation.com/we-found-pesti…
My study from last year showed how a prescribed burn conducted exactly to prescription killed 77% of a critically endangered species in the block. #AustralEcology tell me it's a #TopCitedArticle ; we need change now.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
New Lerista taxonomy paper out today in Zootaxa (10.11646/zootaxa.5437.3.2).
We sink Lerista arenicola, and all L. microtis subspecies, into L. microtis. We also highlight the challenges posed by past uses of the subspecies rank.
Dm me for a pdf.
ChappleLab School of Biological Sciences, Monash
First paper from the trial pygmy bluetongue translocation showing that the lizards are behaving as they would as if they were in their source locations. And first paper from PhD student Dee Trewartha #PBT doi.org/10.1111/acv.12… Jess Clayton Steph Godfrey (she/her)
