Neglected juveniles; a call for integrating all amphibian life stages in assessments of mitigation success (and how to do it)

SO Petrovan, BR Schmidt - Biological Conservation, 2019 - Elsevier
Road networks are central drivers of biodiversity loss and their impacts are rapidly
expanding. Pond-breeding amphibians are highly vulnerable to road impacts because they …

Bending the curve: Simple but massive conservation action leads to landscape-scale recovery of amphibians

H Moor, A Bergamini, C Vorburger… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Success stories are rare in conservation science, hindered also by the research-
implementation gap, where scientific insights rarely inform practice and practical …

Small Hydropower Plants' Proliferation Would Negatively Affect Local Herpetofauna

J Crnobrnja-Isailović, B Jovanović, M Ilić… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Hydropower plants (HPPs) have a strong environmental impact on freshwater wetlands.
Small diversion HPPs (SDHPPs) with 0.1–10 MW of installed power, redirect water from …

Amphibian conservation in the Anthropocene

EHC Grant, E Muths, BR Schmidt, SO Petrovan - Biological Conservation, 2019 - Elsevier
Research is necessary to identify patterns in nature, to understand how a system functions,
and to make predictions about the future state of an ecosystem. Applied research in …

How citizen science could improve species distribution models and their independent assessment

F Matutini, J Baudry, G Pain, M Sineau… - Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Species distribution models (SDM) have been increasingly developed in recent years, but
their validity is questioned. Their assessment can be improved by the use of independent …

Effectiveness of small road tunnels and fences in reducing amphibian roadkill and barrier effects at retrofitted roads in Sweden

JO Helldin, SO Petrovan - PeerJ, 2019 - peerj.com
Schemes to reduce road impacts on amphibians have been implemented for decades in
Europe, yet, several aspects on the effectiveness of such schemes remain poorly …

Continental‐scale determinants of population trends in European amphibians and reptiles

M Falaschi, R Manenti, W Thuiller… - Global Change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The continuous decline of biodiversity is determined by the complex and joint effects of
multiple environmental drivers. Still, a large part of past global change studies reporting and …

Contribution of rare and common species to subterranean species richness patterns

P Bregović, C Fišer, M Zagmajster - Ecology and Evolution, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Common species contribute more to species richness patterns (SRPs) than rare species
in most studies. Our aim was to test this hypothesis using a novel model system, species …

Landscape connectivity and spatial prioritization in an urbanising world: A network analysis approach for a threatened amphibian

C Matos, SO Petrovan, PM Wheeler, AI Ward - Biological Conservation, 2019 - Elsevier
Habitat fragmentation affects amphibian populations worldwide. Urban expansion and
associated infrastructure are a main cause of habitat degradation and loss of landscape …

Road mitigation using tunnels and fences promotes site connectivity and population expansion for a protected amphibian

LE Jarvis, M Hartup, SO Petrovan - European Journal of wildlife research, 2019 - Springer
Habitat loss and fragmentation due to urbanisation and road developments have substantial
impacts on amphibian populations and road mitigation measures are increasingly used in …