Amphibian Declines: The Conservation Status of United States SpeciesMichael J. Lannoo This benchmark volume documents in comprehensive detail a major environmental crisis: rapidly declining amphibian populations and the disturbing developmental problems that are increasingly prevalent within many amphibian species. Horror stories on this topic have been featured in the scientific and popular press over the past fifteen years, invariably asking what amphibian declines are telling us about the state of the environment. Are declines harbingers of devastated ecosystems or simply weird reflections of a peculiar amphibian world? This compendium—presenting new data, reviews of current literature, and comprehensive species accounts—reinforces what scientists have begun to suspect, that amphibians are a lens through which the state of the environment can be viewed more clearly. And, that the view is alarming and presages serious concerns for all life, including that of our own species. The first part of this work consists of more than fifty essays covering topics from the causes of declines to conservation, surveys and monitoring, and education. The second part consists of species accounts describing the life history and natural history of every known amphibian species in the United States. |
Contents
DECLINES 22 13 Risk Factors and Declines | 75 |
Biology of Amphibian Declines 14 Ultraviolet Radiation | 87 |
Influencing Amphibian Raymond D Semlitsch | 93 |
Philosophy Value | 103 |
and Steve Giambrone CAUSES 59 David M Hoppe | 109 |
A Growing Problem | 124 |
Pine Silviculture | 139 |
Commercial Trade | 146 |
Evaluating Calling Surveys | 314 |
Geographical Information Systems | 320 |
Impacts of Forest Management | 326 |
The National Amphibian | 339 |
Introduction | 351 |
Ascaphidae | 382 |
Dendrobatidae | 440 |
Leptodactylidae | 491 |
Amphibian Conservation | 168 |
Amphibian Population Cycles | 177 |
Landscape Ecology | 185 |
Conservation of Texas Spring | 193 |
Taxonomy and Amphibian | 206 |
Factors Limiting | 222 |
Southwestern Desert Bufonids | 237 |
Museum Collections | 244 |
Creating Habitat Reserves | 260 |
Exotic Species | 271 |
Reflections Upon Amphibian | 277 |
Distribution of South Dakota | 283 |
Nebraskas Declining | 292 |
Monitoring Salamander | 300 |
North American Amphibian | 307 |
Microhylidae | 501 |
Pelobatidae | 508 |
Pipidae | 522 |
Rhinophrynidae | 599 |
Amphiumidae | 642 |
Cryptobranchidae | 648 |
Plethodontidae | 656 |
Proteidae | 866 |
Rhyacotritonidae | 874 |
Salamandridae | 884 |
Sirenidae | 908 |
FACTORS IMPLICATED IN AMPHIBIAN | 915 |
CONCLUSION | 926 |
INDEX | 1077 |
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Amphibian Declines: The Conservation Status of United States Species Michael Lannoo Limited preview - 2005 |
Amphibian Declines: The Conservation Status of United States Species Michael J. Lannoo No preview available - 2005 |
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