Complex organisms must deal with complex threats: how does amphibian conservation deal with biphasic life cycles?

N Nolan, MW Hayward, K Klop-Toker, M Mahony… - Animals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Programs to conserve biphasic amphibians may fail if threats at different
life stages are not addressed. Anthropogenic threats, such as altered hydroperiods and …

Integrating amphibian movement studies across scales better informs conservation decisions

LL Bailey, E Muths - Biological Conservation, 2019 - Elsevier
Numerous papers have highlighted the need to integrate amphibian research and
conservation across multiple scales. Despite this, most amphibian movement studies focus …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Priority research needs to inform amphibian conservation in the Anthropocene

EH Campbell Grant, SM Amburgey… - … Science and Practice, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Influence of the COVID‐19 pandemic on amphibian road mortality

G LeClair, MWH Chatfield, Z Wood… - … science and practice, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The COVID‐19 pandemic and its related human activity shutdowns provide unique
opportunities for biodiversity monitoring through what has been termed the “anthropause” or …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial analysis of the potential exposure of amphibians to plant protection products at the landscape scale

G Churko, E Szerencsits, A Aldrich… - Basic and Applied …, 2024 - Elsevier
Plant protection products (PPPs) are among the many drivers that lead to the loss of
biodiversity in agricultural landscapes and they are a contributing factor to the global decline …

Using citizen science in road surveys for large-scale amphibian monitoring: are biased data representative for species distribution?

SO Petrovan, CG Vale, N Sillero - Biodiversity and Conservation, 2020 - Springer
Road-based citizen science surveys are increasingly used for long-term monitoring of
wildlife, including amphibians, over large spatial scales. However, how representative such …

Interpopulation differences in male reproductive effort drive the population dynamics of a host exposed to an emerging fungal pathogen

A Valenzuela‐Sánchez, C Azat… - Journal of Animal …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Compensatory recruitment is a key demographic mechanism that has allowed the
coexistence of populations of susceptible amphibians with Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis …