Extinction in our times : global amphibian decline /

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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 suddenly and mysteriously. What is causing these extinctions? What role do human actions play in them? What do they tell us abo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Collins, James P.
Other Authors: Crump, Martha L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Amphibian declines.
Extinct amphibians.
Amphibiens > Populations > Déclin.
Amphibiens disparus.
NATURE > Animals > Reptiles & Amphibians.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Declining amphibian populations and the biodiversity crisis
  • Rallying around the issue of amphibian declines
  • Challenges, correlates, and hypotheses
  • Introduction species, commerce, and land use change
  • Contaminants, global change, and emerging infectious diseases
  • Unraveling the mystery
  • Amphibian chytrid fungus as a cause of declines and extinctions
  • New approaches to doing science and conversation
  • Science policy and reacting to a challenge
  • Leaping between mysteries.

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