This article reviews current drought effects on environmental systems. It stresses the need
for considering environmental drought as a relevant type to be included in drought …

The Class Amphibia is one of the most severely impacted taxa in an on-going global
biodiversity crisis. Because amphibian reproduction is tightly associated with the presence …

The contiguous United States (CONUS), especially the West, faces challenges of increasing
water stress and uncertain impacts of climate change. The historical information of surface …

Though a third of amphibian species worldwide are thought to be imperiled, existing
assessments simply categorize extinction risk, providing little information on the rate of …

Wetlands are globally important ecosystems that provide critical services for natural
communities and human society. Montane wetland ecosystems are expected to be among …

Background: The southeastern United States consistently has high salmonellosis incidence,
but disease drivers remain unknown. Salmonella is regularly detected in this region's natural …

Many species that inhabit seasonally ponded wetlands also rely on surrounding upland
habitats and nearby aquatic ecosystems for resources to support life stages and to maintain …

BRCA1 is a large multi-domain protein with a pivotal role in maintaining genome stability
and cell cycle progression. Germline mutations in the BRCA1 gene confer an estimated …

Despite prevalent awareness of global amphibian declines, there is still little information on
trends for many widespread species. To inform land managers of trends on protected …

A unifying goal of wetland monitoring programs is to characterize how wetland flooding and
drying regimes vary in space and time. In remote and mountainous regions, wetlands have …