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Amphibian Declines : The Conservation Status of United States Species /
Comprehensive coverage of environmental degradation in the US as seen through the lens of amphibian ecologies. Over recent decades a massive decline has been sustained by many amphibian species, an indication of serious problems that are only now beginning to be properly appreciated.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2005.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Diverse phenomena influencing amphibian population declines / Tim Halliday
- Why are some species in decline but others not? / Martha L. Crump
- Philosophy, value judgments, and declining amphibians / Sarah Aucoin, Robert G. Jaeger and Steve Giambrone
- Embracing human diversity in conservation / Whit Gibbons
- Declining amphibian populations task force / W. Ronald Heyer and James B. Murphy
- Meeting the challenge of amphibian declines with an interdisciplinary research program / James P. Collins [and others]
- Biology of amphibian declines / David M. Green
- Declines of eastern North American woodland salamanders (Plethodon) / Richard Highton
- Decline of northern cricket frogs (Acris crepitans) / Robert H. Gray and Lauren E. Brown
- Overwintering in northern cricket frogs (Acris crepitans) / Jason T. Irwin
- Repercussions of global change / Jamie K. Reaser and Andrew Blaustein
- Lessons from Europe / K. Henle ; translation by William T. Leja
- Risk factors and declines in northern cricket frogs (Acris crepitans) / Val R. Beasley [and others]
- Ultraviolet radiation / Andrew R. Blaustein and Lisa K. Belden
- Xenobiotics / Christine M. Bridges and Raymond D. Semlitsch
- Variation in pesticide tolerance / Christine M. Bridges and Raymond D. Semlitsch
- Lucke renal adenocarcinoma / Robert G. McKinnell and Debra L. Carlson
- Malformed frogs in Minnesota : history and interspecific differences / David M. Hoppe
- Parasites of North American frogs / Daniel Sutherland
- Parasite infection and limb malformations : a growing problem in amphibian conservation / Pieter T.J. Johnson and Kevin B. Lunde
- Pine silviculture / D. Bruce Means
- Commercial trade / Anthony B. Wilson
- Houston toads and Texas politics / Lauren E. Brown and Ann Mesrobian
- Amphibian conservation needs / Edward D. Koch and Charles R. Peterson
- Amphibian population cycles and long-term data sets / Howard H. Whiteman and Scott A. Wissinger
- Landscape ecology / David E. Naugle [and others]
- Conservation of Texas spring and cave salamanders (Eurycea) / Paul T. Chippindale and Andrew H. Price
- Lessons from the tropics / Karen R. Lips and Maureen A. Donnelly
- Taxonomy and amphibian declines / Sherman A. Minton
- Conservation systematics : the Bufo boreas species group / Anna M. Goebel
- Factors limiting the recovery of boreal toads (Bufo b. boreas) / Cynthia Carey [and others]
- Southwestern desert bufonids / Brian K. Sullivan
- Amphibian ecotoxicology / Raymond D. Semlitsch and Christine M. Bridges
- Museum collections / John W. Ferner, Jeffrey G. Davis and Paul J. Krusling
- Critical areas / Hugh R. Quinn and Colleen Scott
- Creating habitat reserves for migratory salamanders / Suzanne C. Fowle and Scott M. Melvin
- Population manipulations / C. Kenneth Dodd, Jr.
- Exotic species / Walter E. Meshaka, Jr.
- Protecting amphibians while restoring fish populations / Debra Patla
- Reflections upon amphibian conservation / Thomas K. Pauley
- Distribution of South Dakota anurans / David E. Naugle [and others]
- Nebraska's declining amphibians / David S. McLeod
- Museum collections can assess population trends / Jeff Boundy
- Monitoring salamander populations in Great Smoky Mountains National Park / Erin J. Hyde and Theodore R. Simons
- North American Amphibian Monitoring Program (NAAMP) / Linda A. Weir and Michael J. Mossman
- Evaluating calling surveys / Sam Droege and Paige Eagle
- Geographical information systems and survey designs / Charles R. Peterson, Stephen R. Burton and Debra A. Patla
- Impacts of forest management on amphibians / Rochelle B. Renken
- Monitoring pigment pattern morphs of northern leopard frogs / Robert G. McKinnell, David M. Hoppe and Beverly K. McKinnell
- The National Amphibian Conservation Center / Andrew T. Snider and Elizabeth Arbaugh
- A thousand friends of frogs : its origins / Tony P. Murphy
- Of men and deformed frogs : a journalist's lament / William Souder
- Species accounts : Introduction / Michael Lannoo [and others]
- Anura
- Caudata
- Factors implicated in amphibian population declines in the United States / David F. Bradford.