It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Frog and Tree News
January 18, 2013 at 5:00 pm by Amanda Cooke
I love frogs. I liked them when I was small because my sister liked them. I like frogs even more now that I know of the frog's important ecological role. Frogs are bioindicators, or animals used to monitor the overall health of the environment.
Here's your tree news, and some frog updates, from around the world this week:
- That's one lazy frog! [The Daily Mail UK]
- A biologist has discovered a large "flying" frog in Vietnam that uses its webbed feet to glide through forests [UPI.com]
- Biomimicry at its finest: The splayed leg behavior of Australia's White’s tree frog is rooted in the same physical principle that applies to adhesive tape [Scientific American]
- Frogs, bats, and bees: Why are fungal infections wiping them out? [FrogsAreGreen.com]
- Do you like whiskey? Do you like wooden percussion instruments? This is the video for you [Vimeo]
- Sunken chunks of wood provide oases for our oceans' drifting microbes and small animals [Mother Nature Network]
- A new technique known as layer farming could ensure the long-term survival of South America's pristine cloud forests [The Guardian UK]
- With energy costs escalating, more Germans are turning to wood burning stoves for heat--making the country's forests an attractive target for thieves [Spiegel Online, hat tip to Tom Martin]
- New Landsat imagery tool from NASA spots insect outbreaks in forests...from space [NASA]
- Botox for trees? Pesticide injections could save healthy trees in Ohio's Asian longhorned beetle-infested areas [The Columbus Dispatch]
- A new economic impact report shows hunting and fishing expenditures are on the rise [Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation]
- A group of Minnesota fifth-graders, along with local graduate students, are working to secure an official School Forest designation [Duluth News Tribune, hat tip to AFF consultant Kathy Westra]
