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Salamanders and wildflowers fade away, crowded out by invasive plants that are altering the soil they need to thrive.
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Especially that first year, Eric would eat salamanders, grub worms and creek lizards.
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"For example, frogs and salamanders are very sensitive to environmental change, maybe because of the way their absorbent skin interacts with the environment, " Professor Edwards told BBC News Online.
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In 2012, both corporate behemoths and a flurry of tiny boutique salamanders are swarming around the mobile game market, trying to gain an edge by evolving their product development strategies.
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The chytrid fungus, or BD as it is sometimes called, infects the skins of amphibians such as frogs, toads, salamanders and newts and interferes with their ability to absorb water.
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"In the case of the North American salamanders, what was found was that they have bacteria living on their skin that produce peptides that are lethal to the amphibian chytrid fungus, " says Dr Church.
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The droppings that cowbirds and other invaders leave behind can also contain seeds from invasive plants that will sprout, spread and ultimately change the soil so much that some forest salamanders and wildflowers can't survive, experts note.
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