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Extinction in our times : global amphibian decline / James P. Collins, Martha L. Crump.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.Description: xx, 273 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780195316940 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0195316940 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 597.8/1788 22
LOC classification:
  • QL644.7 .C65 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
Declining amphibian populations and the biodiversity crisis -- Rallying around the issue of amphibian declines -- Challenges, correlates, and hypotheses -- Introduction species, commerce, and land use change -- Contaminants, global change, and emerging infectious diseases -- Unraveling the mystery -- Amphibian chytrid fungus as a cause of declines and extinctions -- New approaches to doing science and conversation -- Science policy and reacting to a challenge -- Leaping between mysteries.

Declining amphibian populations and the biodiversity crisis -- Rallying around the issue of amphibian declines -- Challenges, correlates, and hypotheses -- Introduction species, commerce, and land use change -- Contaminants, global change, and emerging infectious diseases -- Unraveling the mystery -- Amphibian chytrid fungus as a cause of declines and extinctions -- New approaches to doing science and conversation -- Science policy and reacting to a challenge -- Leaping between mysteries.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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