Climate change probably has severe impacts on animal populations, but demonstrating a
causal link can be difficult because of potential influences by additional factors. Assessing …

Understanding how stressors combine to affect population abundances and trajectories is a
fundamental ecological problem with increasingly important implications worldwide …

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 …

One of the most important hotspots of herpetological biodiversity in the United States,
California is home to many endemic amphibians and reptiles found nowhere else on earth …

Aquatic and terrestrial environments are increasingly contaminated by anthropogenic
sources that include pharmaceuticals, personal care products, and industrial and …

Concerns over the consequences of global climate change for biodiversity have spurred a
renewed interest in organismal thermal physiology. However, temperature is only one of …

One widely documented phenological response to climate change is the earlier occurrence
of spring‐breeding events. While such climate change‐driven shifts in phenology are …

Wetlands are globally important ecosystems that provide critical services for natural
communities and human society. Montane wetland ecosystems are expected to be among …

The many and varied effects of human‐induced environmental change have the potential to
threaten animal biodiversity and species abundance. Importantly, human land use and …

Migrations of animals can transfer energy and nutrients through and among terrestrial and
aquatic habitats. Pool‐breeding amphibians, such as the wood frog (Lithobates sylvaticus) …