State of the world's amphibians

A Catenazzi - Annual review of environment and resources, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The Anthropocene is characterized by a widespread biodiversity crisis that is rivaling
prehistoric mass extinctions. Amphibians are the most threatened class of vertebrates. In …

[HTML][HTML] Harlequin frog rediscoveries provide insights into species persistence in the face of drastic amphibian declines

KE Jaynes, MI Páez-Vacas, D Salazar-Valenzuela… - Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Amphibians face global declines, and it remains unclear the extent to which species have
responded, and through what mechanisms, to persist in the face of emerging diseases and …

Degradation and dispersion limit environmental DNA detection of rare amphibians in wetlands: Increasing efficacy of sampling designs

CS Goldberg, KM Strickler, AK Fremier - Science of the Total Environment, 2018 - Elsevier
The detection of rare macroorganisms using environmental DNA (eDNA) is a powerful new
method for conservation and management; the efficacy of this method is affected by …

Evolutionary history of the Asian Horned Frogs (Megophryinae): integrative approaches to timetree dating in the absence of a fossil record

S Mahony, NM Foley, SD Biju… - Molecular biology and …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Molecular dating studies typically need fossils to calibrate the analyses. Unfortunately, the
fossil record is extremely poor or presently nonexistent for many species groups, rendering …

A combined palaeomodelling approach reveals the role as selective refugia of the Mediterranean peninsulas

L Macaluso, A Bertini, G Carnevale, JT Eronen… - Palaeogeography …, 2023 - Elsevier
The northern Mediterranean reptiles and amphibians show contrasting biogeographic
histories during the Plio-Pleistocene. The influence of European climate changes on the …

On the decline of biodiversity due to area loss

P Keil, D Storch, W Jetz - Nature communications, 2015 - nature.com
Predictions of how different facets of biodiversity decline with habitat loss are broadly
needed, yet challenging. Here we provide theory and a global empirical evaluation to …

Late persistence and deterministic extinction of “humid thermophilous plant taxa of East Asian affinity”(HUTEA) in southern Europe

E Martinetto, A Momohara, R Bizzarri… - Palaeogeography …, 2017 - Elsevier
Several terrestrial plant fossils found in the late Cenozoic of Europe belong to thermophilous
genera or infrageneric taxa which do not grow in this continent today, and are usually called …

The emerging amphibian fungal disease, chytridiomycosis: a key example of the global phenomenon of wildlife emerging infectious diseases

JE Kolby, P Daszak - Emerging Infections 10, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
During the latter half of the 20th century, it was noticed that global amphibian populations
had entered a state of unusually rapid decline. Hundreds of species have since become …

Mesozoic and tertiary anura of laurasia

Z Roček - Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 2013 - Springer
Anurans of Laurasia have a long history that begins with the earliest known anuran,
Prosalirus, from the Early Jurassic of Arizona, USA. At that time, western Laurasia (North …

Early Miocene herpetofaunas from the Greek localities of Aliveri and Karydia–bridging a gap in the knowledge of amphibians and reptiles from the early Neogene of …

GL Georgalis, A Villa, M Ivanov, S Roussiakis… - Historical …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
We here describe new remains of amphibians and reptiles from the early Miocene (MN 4) of
two different Greek localities, Aliveri and Karydia. The newly described material consists of …