The calamity of amphibian population declines has preoccupied the thoughts of many
amphibian biologists for the past 30 yr. Because amphibians provide multiple essential …

Impressions of amphibian population decline are rarely backed with historical or
demographic data and are expressed either as a concern over declining sizes of …

In 1989, it dawned on participants at the First World Congress of Herpetology that observed
declines in amphibian populations might actually be global in scope and unprecedented in …

The world's amphibians face an imminent extinction crisis, with nearly a third of species
categorized as threatened. The principal cause of amphibian declines is the destruction of …

This benchmark volume documents in comprehensive detail a major environmental crisis:
rapidly declining amphibian populations and the disturbing developmental problems that …

Declines in global amphibian populations have been in news headlines around the world
since they were acknowledged in 1989 at the First World Congress of Herpetology. Eager to …

Numerous factors, such as global environmental changes, habitat destruction, introduced
species, diseases, and chemical pollution, appear to be contributing to amphibian …

Early calls for robust long-term time series of amphibian population data, stemming from
discussion following the first World Congress of Herpetology, are now being realized after …

DAVID M. GREEN long enough time frame, a species is a transient phenomenon. Over
ecologically relevant time spans, species do quite handily persist. To understand amphibian …

THERE have been numerous recent reports suggesting that the populations of amphibian
species in a wide array of geographic regions and habitats have apparently declined or …