Abstract The 2004 Global Amphibian Assessment demonstrated that almost 400 anuran
species have recently moved closer to extinction due to a host of threat mechanisms. Of …

More than a third of the world's amphibian species are listed as Threatened or Extinct, with a
recent assessment identifying 45 Australian frogs (18.4% of the currently recognised …

Frog populations are rapidly disappearing throughout the world. An important issue for
ecologists to resolve is why some frog species are more susceptible to decline than others …

Fatal amphibian chytridiomycosis has typically been associated with the direct costs of
infection. However the relationship between exposure to the pathogen, infection and …

Pathogen emergence can drive major changes in host population demography, with
implications for population dynamics and sensitivity to environmental fluctuations. The …

Amphibian declines have been reported from around the world. Here we examine life history
and distributional characteristics of Australian frogs listed as threatened under the IUCN …

Species that are tolerant of broad environmental gradients may be less vulnerable to
epizootic outbreaks of disease. Chytridriomycosis, caused by the fungus Batrachochytrium …

Recent concern about declining amphibian populations has stimulated an extensive effort to
quantify the population status of amphibians throughout the world, and to elucidate the …

For over 350 million yr, thousands of amphibian species have lived on Earth. Since the
1980s, amphibians have been disappearing at an alarming rate, in many cases quite …

Inventory, monitoring, and experimental studies have been the primary approaches for
documenting and understanding the problem of amphibian declines. However, little …