Extinction in Our Times
Global Amphibian Decline
1st Edition
Published on 7. July 2009
296 pages
978-0-19-971788-0 (ISBN)
Description
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 tell us 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 global examples that range from the Sierra Nevada of California to the rainforests of Costa Rica and the Mediterranean coast of North Africa. Joining scientific rigor and vivid storytelling, this book is the first to use amphibian decline as a lens through which to see more clearly the larger story of climate change, conservation of biodiversity, and a host of profoundly important ecological, evolutionary, ethical, philosophical, and sociological issues.
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James P. Collins | Martha L. Crump | Thomas E. Lovejoy III
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Global Amphibian Decline
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Persons
James P. Collins is Virginia M. Ullman Professor of Natural History and the Environment at the School of Life Life Sciences, Arizona State University, and the Assistant Director for Biological Sciences at the National Science Foundation.
Martha L. Crump is Adjunct Professor of Biological Sciences at Northern Arizona University and the author of Headless Males Make Great Lovers.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- The fifth inhabitant of Mexico
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Declining Amphibian Populations and the Biodiversity Crisis
- 2. Rallying Around the Issue of Amphibian Declines
- 3. Challenges, Correlates, and Hypotheses
- 4. Introduced Species, Commerce, and Land Use Change
- 5. Contaminants, Global Change, and Emerging Infectious Diseases
- 6. Unraveling the Mystery
- 7. Amphibian Chytrid Fungus as a Cause of Declines and Extinctions
- 8. New Approaches to Doing Science and Conservation
- 9. Science Policy and Reacting to a Challenge
- 10. Leaping between Mysteries
- Notes
- References
- General Index
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