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Extinction in Our Times : Global Amphibian Decline
ISBN: 9780195316940 | 0195316940
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 7/7/2009
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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 tellus about the overall state of biodiversity on the planet? In Extinction in Our Times, James Collins and Martha Crump explore these pressing questions and many others as they document the first modern extinction event across an entire vertebrate class, using... MORE
| The fifth inhabitant of Mexico | p. ix |
| Foreword | p. xi |
| Preface | p. xv |
| Acknowledgments | p. xix |
| Declining Amphibian Populations and the Biodiversity Crisis | p. 1 |
| Rallying Around the Issue of Amphibian Declines | p. 27 |
| Challenges, Correlates, and Hypotheses | p. 42 |
| Introduced Species, Commerce, and Land Use Change | p. 59 |
| Contaminants, Global Chang... MORE | p. 88 |
| Unraveling the Mystery | p. 123 |
| Amphibian Chytrid Fungus as a Cause of Declines and Extinctions | p. 159 |
| New Approaches to Doing Science and Conservation | p. 175 |
| Science Policy and Reacting to a Challenge | p. 184 |
| Leaping between Mysteries | p. 196 |
| Notes | p. 207 |
| References | p. 231 |
| General Index | p. 259 |
| Species Index | p. 269 |
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James P. Collins is Virginia M. Ullman Professor of Natural History and the Environment in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University.
Martha L. Crump is Adjunct Professor of Biology at Northern Arizona University and is an active conservationist.
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