The complexity of amphibian population declines: understanding the role of cofactors in driving amphibian losses

AR Blaustein, BA Han, RA Relyea… - Annals of the New …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Population losses and extinctions of species are occurring at unprecedented rates, as
exemplified by declines and extinctions of amphibians worldwide. However, studies of …

The effects of amphibian population declines on the structure and function of Neotropical stream ecosystems

MR Whiles, KR Lips, CM Pringle… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Amphibians can be important consumers in both aquatic and terrestrial habitats and may
represent an important energetic link between the two, particularly in the tropics, where …

Amphibian fungal panzootic causes catastrophic and ongoing loss of biodiversity

BC Scheele, F Pasmans, LF Skerratt, L Berger… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Anthropogenic trade and development have broken down dispersal barriers, facilitating the
spread of diseases that threaten Earth's biodiversity. We present a global, quantitative …

Amphibian contributions to ecosystem services

DJ Hocking, KJ Babbitt - Herpetological conservation and biology, 2014 - scholars.unh.edu
Ecosystems provide essential services for human society, which include provisioning,
regulating, cultural, and supporting services. Amphibians provide provisioning services by …

Blue waters, green bottoms: benthic filamentous algal blooms are an emerging threat to clear lakes worldwide

Y Vadeboncoeur, MV Moore, SD Stewart… - …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Nearshore (littoral) habitats of clear lakes with high water quality are increasingly
experiencing unexplained proliferations of filamentous algae that grow on submerged …

Deciphering amphibian diversity through DNA barcoding: chances and challenges

M Vences, M Thomas, RM Bonett… - … Transactions of the …, 2005 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Amphibians globally are in decline, yet there is still a tremendous amount of unrecognized
diversity, calling for an acceleration of taxonomic exploration. This process will be greatly …

[图书][B] Ecotoxicology of amphibians and reptiles

DW Sparling, G Linder, CA Bishop, S Krest - 2010 - books.google.com
Building on the success of its popular predecessor, this second edition presents new
findings on species of importance as environmental indicators. It covers nearly twice as …

[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 …

Catastrophic Population Declines and Extinctions in Neotropical Harlequin Frogs (Bufonidae: Atelopus)1

E La Marca, KR Lips, S Lötters… - … : The Journal of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
We surveyed the population status of the Neotropical toad genus Atelopus, and document
recent catastrophic declines that are more severe than previously reported for any …

What do tadpoles really eat? Assessing the trophic status of an understudied and imperiled group of consumers in freshwater habitats

R Altig, MR Whiles, CL Taylor - Freshwater biology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the trophic status of consumers in freshwater habitats is central to
understanding their ecological roles and significance. Tadpoles are a diverse and abundant …