More losers than winners: investigating Anthropocene defaunation through the diversity of population trends

C Finn, F Grattarola, D Pincheira‐Donoso - Biological Reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The global‐scale decline of animal biodiversity ('defaunation') represents one of the most
alarming consequences of human impacts on the planet. The quantification of this extinction …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress in taxonomic studies, biogeographic analysis, and revised checklist of amphibians in Indochina

NA Poyarkov, T Van Nguyen, ES Popov… - Russian Journal of …, 2021 - rjh.folium.ru
Abstract The Indochinese Peninsula is recognized as one of the key global biodiversity
hotspots. The amphibian fauna of Indochina (including Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and …

John R. McNeill et Peter Engelke The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945 Cambridge, The Belknap Press of Harvard …

G Quenet - Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 2017 - cambridge.org
John McNeill est certainement le meilleur historien spécialiste de l'Anthropocène. Il a
participé dès le départ, aux côtés de Paul Crutzen et de Will Steffen, aux groupes de travail …

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

E Kolbert - Henry Holt and Company, 2014 - books.google.com
Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of
life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently …

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 …

Amphibian contributions to ecosystem services

DJ Hocking, KJ Babbitt - Herpetological conservation and biology, 2014 - scholars.unh.edu
Ecosystems provide essential services for human society, which include provisioning,
regulating, cultural, and supporting services. Amphibians provide provisioning services by …

Disentangling host, pathogen, and environmental determinants of a recently emerged wildlife disease: lessons from the first 15 years of amphibian chytridiomycosis …

TY James, LF Toledo, D Rödder… - Ecology and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The amphibian fungal disease chytridiomycosis, which affects species across all continents,
recently emerged as one of the greatest threats to biodiversity. Yet, many aspects of the …

Specimen collection: An essential tool

LA Rocha, A Aleixo, G Allen, F Almeda, CC Baldwin… - Science, 2014 - science.org
COLLECTING BIOLOGICAL specimens for scientific studies came under scrutiny when BA
Minteer et al.[“Avoiding (re) extinction,” Perspectives, 18 April, p. 260] suggested that this …

Can amphibians take the heat? Vulnerability to climate warming in subtropical and temperate larval amphibian communities

H Duarte, M Tejedo, M Katzenberger… - Global change …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Predicting the biodiversity impacts of global warming implies that we know where and with
what magnitude these impacts will be encountered. Amphibians are currently the most …

Amphibian decline and extinction: what we know and what we need to learn

JP Collins - Diseases of aquatic organisms, 2010 - int-res.com
For over 350 million yr, thousands of amphibian species have lived on Earth. Since the
1980s, amphibians have been disappearing at an alarming rate, in many cases quite …