Modern agricultural practices are suspected to play a major role in the ongoing erosion of
biodiversity. In order to assess whether this biodiversity loss is linked to past habitat …

Ecosystems provide essential services for human society, which include provisioning,
regulating, cultural, and supporting services. Amphibians provide provisioning services by …

Evaluates the decline of the worldwide amphibian population. Debate over natural year-to-
year variation versus extraordinary rates of decline and extinction; Possible causes for …

Since the dawn of history, amphibians have been a part of human culture. Western
Europeans built fires for cooking and warmth, adding large logs as needed. What …

A general approach to assessing the state of biodiversity is to proceed from the top down,
beginning with a coarse-scale inventory of landscape pattern, habitat structure, and species …

During the 1970s and 1980s, researchers in many parts of the world reported seemingly
drastic population declines and disappearances of amphibians. International amphibian and …

The problem of global amphibian declines has prompted extensive research over the last
three decades. Initially, the focus was on identifying and characterizing the extent of the …

Fears grow for amphibians: Current Biology Skip to Main Content Advertisement Current
Biology This journal offers authors two options (open access or subscription) to publish …

In 1989 at the First World Congress of Herpetology in Canterbury UK, prominent amphibian
biologists began discussing similarities of declines in their study populations. A short time …

Anthropogenic biodiversity loss is extreme in amphibians. Despite ongoing conservation
action, it is difficult to determine where we stand in overcoming their extinction crisis 1, 2 …