Published date: May 03 2018

Journal Title: KnE Life Sciences

Issue title: The Second International Conference on Amphibian and Reptiles Anomalies and Pathology

Pages: 42–48

DOI: 10.18502/kls.v4i3.2101

V M Tytar

O D Nekrasova - oneks22@gmail.com

A Y Marushchak

GIS modeling of 138 georeferenced point data of anomalies in amphibians in Ukraine (data from both the literature and personal field surveys) revealed a rather poor, but statistically significant correlation of the numbers of anomalies with the anthropogenic impact measured by the Human Footprint (r=0,268, p=0,0025). We consider that in certain cases the abundance of anomalies in amphibians could be used for purposes of bioindication.

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