Amphibian Declines: The Conservation Status of United States Species by Michæl J. Lannoo
English | June 15, 2005 | ISBN: 0520235924 | 1117 Pages | PDF | 25 MB
English | June 15, 2005 | ISBN: 0520235924 | 1117 Pages | PDF | 25 MB
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?