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 …
Anthropogenic trade and development have broken down dispersal barriers, facilitating the spread of diseases that threaten Earth's biodiversity. We present a global, quantitative …
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 …
Nearshore (littoral) habitats of clear lakes with high water quality are increasingly experiencing unexplained proliferations of filamentous algae that grow on submerged …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Understanding the trophic status of consumers in freshwater habitats is central to understanding their ecological roles and significance. Tadpoles are a diverse and abundant …