Detecting range shifts from historical species occurrences: new perspectives on old data

MW Tingley, SR Beissinger - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2009 - cell.com
The difficulty of making valid comparisons between historical and contemporary data is an
obstacle to documenting range change in relation to environmental modifications. Recent …

Amphibian Declines in Brazil: An Overview1

PC Eterovick, ACO de Queiroz Carnaval… - … : The Journal of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Population declines have previously been reported for at least 31 amphibian species in
Brazil, in the families Leptodactylidae (19), Hylidae (7), Centrolenidae (2), Dendrobatidae …

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 …

Status and trends of amphibian declines and extinctions worldwide

SN Stuart, JS Chanson, NA Cox, BE Young… - Science, 2004 - science.org
The first global assessment of amphibians provides new context for the well-publicized
phenomenon of amphibian declines. Amphibians are more threatened and are declining …

The cause of global amphibian declines: a developmental endocrinologist's perspective

TB Hayes, P Falso, S Gallipeau… - Journal of Experimental …, 2010 - journals.biologists.com
Greater than 70% of the world's amphibian species are in decline. We propose that there is
probably not a single cause for global amphibian declines and present a three-tiered …

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 …

Coincident mass extirpation of neotropical amphibians with the emergence of the infectious fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

TL Cheng, SM Rovito, DB Wake… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Amphibians highlight the global biodiversity crisis because∼ 40% of all amphibian species
are currently in decline. Species have disappeared even in protected habitats (eg, the …

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 …

Emerging infectious disease as a proximate cause of amphibian mass mortality

LJ Rachowicz, RA Knapp, JAT Morgan, MJ Stice… - Ecology, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
A newly discovered infectious disease of amphibians, chytridiomycosis, caused by the
fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, is implicated in population declines and …

The novel and endemic pathogen hypotheses: competing explanations for the origin of emerging infectious diseases of wildlife

LJ Rachowicz, JM HERO, RA Alford… - Conservation …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Chytridiomycosis, caused by the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, is an
emerging infectious disease implicated in declines of amphibian populations around the …