The amphibian decline crisis: a watershed for conservation biology?

TJC Beebee, RA Griffiths - Biological conservation, 2005 - Elsevier
Amphibians have declined dramatically in many areas of the world. These declines seem to
have worsened over the past 25 years and amphibians are now more threatened than either …

[HTML][HTML] Drivers of amphibian declines: effects of ultraviolet radiation and interactions with other environmental factors

LA Alton, CE Franklin - Climate Change Responses, 2017 - Springer
As a consequence of anthropogenic environmental change, the world is facing a possible
sixth mass extinction event. The severity of this biodiversity crisis is exemplified by the rapid …

Global amphibian declines: sorting the hypotheses

JP Collins, A Storfer - Diversity and distributions, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Reports of malformed amphibians and global amphibian declines have led to public
concern, particularly because amphibians are thought to be indicator species of overall …

Climate warming and the decline of amphibians and reptiles in Europe

MB Araújo, W Thuiller, RG Pearson - Journal of biogeography, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Aim We explore the relationship between current European distributions of amphibian and
reptile species and observed climate, and project species potential distributions into the …

Pesticide mixtures, endocrine disruption, and amphibian declines: are we underestimating the impact?

TB Hayes, P Case, S Chui, D Chung… - Environmental …, 2006 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Amphibian populations are declining globally at an alarming rate. Pesticides are among a
number of proposed causes for these declines. Although a sizable database examining …

[HTML][HTML] Marine heatwave drives cryptic loss of genetic diversity in underwater forests

CFD Gurgel, O Camacho, AJP Minne, T Wernberg… - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
Extreme events have profound ecological impacts on species and ecosystems, including
range contractions and collapse of entire ecosystems. Although theory predicts that extreme …

[图书][B] Extinction in our times: global amphibian decline

JP Collins, ML Crump, TE Lovejoy III - 2009 - books.google.com
For over 350 million years, thousands of species of amphibians have lived on earth, but
since the 1990s they have been disappearing at an alarming rate, in many cases quite …

Paradox, presumption and pitfalls in conservation biology: the importance of habitat change for amphibians and reptiles

TA Gardner, J Barlow, CA Peres - Biological conservation, 2007 - Elsevier
The recent shift in research attention by amphibian biologists towards the causes of
“enigmatic” population declines appears paradoxical given the almost unanimous …

Landscape genetics of high mountain frog metapopulations

MA Murphy, R Dezzani, DS Pilliod… - Molecular ecology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Explaining functional connectivity among occupied habitats is crucial for understanding
metapopulation dynamics and species ecology. Landscape genetics has primarily focused …

Amphibian upland habitat use and its consequences for population viability

PC Trenham, HB Shaffer - Ecological Applications, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
To predict the effects of habitat alteration on population size and viability, data describing the
landscape‐scale distribution of individuals are needed. Many amphibians breed in wetland …