Status and trends of amphibian declines and extinctions worldwide

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The first global assessment of amphibians provides new context to the well-publicized phenomenon of amphibian declines. Amphibians are more threatened, and are declining more rapidly, than either birds or mammals. Although many declines are due to habitat loss and overutilization, other, unidentified processes threaten 48% of rapidly declining species and are driving species most quickly to extinction. Declines are nonrandom in terms of species’ ecological preferences, geographic ranges, and taxonomic associations, and are most prevalent among Neotropical montane, stream-associated species. The lack of conservation remedies for these poorly understood declines means that hundreds of amphibian species now face extinction.

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SWAP (2/19/2016) citation:
Stuart SN, Chanson JS, Cox NA, Young BE, Rodrigues AS, Fischman DL, Waller RW. 2004. Status and trends of amphibian declines and extinctions worldwide. [accessed 2015 Dec 14]; Science. 306(5702):1783–1786. http://crawl.prod.proquest.com.s3.amazonaws.com/fpcache/aafd3ed0b747e540...
[NOTE: this URL doesn't work, probably requires a login? Would be MUCH BETTER to use http://www.ots.ac.cr/rdmcnfs/datasets/biblioteca/pdfs/nbina-1787.pdf or http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/137538#/summary.]

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2 August 2004; accepted 4 October 2004
Published online 14 October 2004;
10.1126/science.1103538
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