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Article: Tales from the Froglog and others. (amphibian population declines)
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- March 10, 1990
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Tales from the Froglog and others
What's a Froglog? David B. Wake, a biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and conference chairman, gathered information from around the world on amphibian declines in a digest given that whimsical title. Highlights from the Froglog and meeting include:
Canada: Richard Wassersug of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who has studied frogs in that province for eight years, says several species are on the wane or have not been sighted recently, including leopard frogs and an albino form of the North American species Rana clamitans.
Japan: Masafumi Matsui of Kyoto University notes that ...