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Article: BIODIVERSITY: SALAMANDER POPULATION ON DECLINE, SCIENTISTS FIND.
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- February 23, 2009
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By Stephen Leahy /Tierramrica *
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 21, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- Mesoamerica's salamanders appear to be joining the global decline in amphibian species, adding to the evidence of ecological change around the planet.
"What's happening to salamanders and other amphibians may be a strong lesson for humans," said lead researcher David Wake, of the University of California, Berkeley.
There are global changes that are altering ecosystems and disease patterns, thus creating new elements of biological pressure, he said.
Wake and his colleagues have discovered that several salamander species have vanished or have become very rare since the ...