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27 relations: Air pollution, Alajuela, Amplexus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, BBC News, Biodiversity, Bufo, Chytridiomycosis, Costa Rica, Cranopsis, Decline in amphibian populations, El Niño, El Niño–Southern Oscillation, Extinction, Global warming, HarperCollins, Holdridge's toad, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Jay M. Savage, Marty Crump, Miami University, Monteverde, Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, Poster child, Tadpole, True toad, United States.
Air pollution
Air pollution occurs when harmful or excessive quantities of substances including gases, particulates, and biological molecules are introduced into Earth's atmosphere.
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Alajuela
Alajuela is the second-largest city in Costa Rica after the capital, San José.
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Amplexus
Amplexus (Latin "embrace") is a type of mating behavior exhibited by some externally fertilizing species (chiefly amphibians and horseshoe crabs) in which a male grasps a female with his front legs as part of the mating process, and at the same time or with some time delay, he fertilizes the female eggs as they are released from the body.
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Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, also known as Bd or the amphibian chytrid fungus, is a fungus that causes the disease chytridiomycosis in amphibians.
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity, a portmanteau of biological (life) and diversity, generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth.
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Bufo
Bufo is a large genus of about 150 species of true toads in the amphibian family Bufonidae.
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Chytridiomycosis
Chytridiomycosis is an infectious disease in amphibians, caused by the chytrid fungi Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans, a nonhyphal zoosporic fungus.
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Costa Rica
Costa Rica ("Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica (República de Costa Rica), is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Ecuador to the south of Cocos Island.
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Cranopsis
The Latin word Cranopsis has been used to name animal genera of frogs, mollusks and branchiopods.
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Decline in amphibian populations
The decline in amphibian populations is an ongoing mass extinction of amphibian species worldwide.
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El Niño
El Niño is the warm phase of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (commonly called ENSO) and is associated with a band of warm ocean water that develops in the central and east-central equatorial Pacific (between approximately the International Date Line and 120°W), including off the Pacific coast of South America.
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El Niño–Southern Oscillation
El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is an irregularly periodic variation in winds and sea surface temperatures over the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean, affecting climate of much of the tropics and subtropics.
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Extinction
In biology, extinction is the termination of an organism or of a group of organisms (taxon), normally a species.
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Global warming
Global warming, also referred to as climate change, is the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects.
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HarperCollins
HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. is one of the world's largest publishing companies and is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster.
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Holdridge's toad
Holdridge's toad (Incilius holdridgei, formerly Bufo holdridgei) is a species of toad endemic to Costa Rica.
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International Union for Conservation of Nature
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
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Jay M. Savage
Jay Mathers Savage (born August, 1928, in Santa Monica, California) is an American herpetologist known for his research on reptiles and amphibians of Central America.
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Marty Crump
Martha L. (Marty) Crump is a behavioral ecologist.
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Miami University
Miami University (also referred to as Miami of Ohio or simply Miami) is a public research university on a 2,138-acre campus in Oxford, Ohio, 35 miles north of Cincinnati.
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Monteverde
Monteverde, Costa Rica is a small community in Puntarenas, Costa Rica, located in the Cordillera de Tilarán.
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Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve
The Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve (Reserva Biológica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde) is a Costa Rican reserve located along the Cordillera de Tilarán within the Puntarenas and Alajuela provinces.
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Poster child
The term poster child (sometimes poster boy or poster girl) originally referred to a child afflicted by some disease or deformity whose picture is used on posters or other media as part of a campaign to raise money or enlist volunteers for a cause or organization.
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Tadpole
A tadpole (also called a pollywog) is the larval stage in the life cycle of an amphibian, particularly that of a frog or toad.
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True toad
A true toad is any member of the family Bufonidae, in the order Anura (frogs and toads).
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_toad
