Article: Emerging infectious diseases and amphibian ...
Emerging Infectious Diseases;  November 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... explain their origin and impact. Amphibian Population Declines Global declines in amphibian population are perhaps one of the most pressing ... demonstrate recent and catastrophic amphibian population declines, often resulting in the complete ...

Article: Tales from the Froglog and others. (amphibian ...
Science News;  March 10, 1990 ;     700+ words ...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

Article: DISEASE MAY BE DEVASTATING AMPHIBIAN POPULATION
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 6, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... months - from mid-September of 2004 to mid-January of 2005 - Lips and her colleagues saw more than half the amphibian population of El Cop, Panama, sicken and die from this disease. It cut across 37 species in seven families of frogs and ...

Article: 'Bullfrog tannie' waits for rain; Amphibian ...
The Saturday Star (South Africa);  September 13, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Anne Mearns remembers her childhood spent playing in the wetlands on Gauteng's East Rand, surrounded by her "living friends" - frogs. But today most of those wetlands have vanished along with their gentle, croaking inhabitants. "Many of the wetlands are built up into roads and cluster homes," says

Article: Agricultural Use Of Malathion Contributes To Crisis Of ...
Targeted News Service;  January 7, 2009 ;     623 words ...The Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry issued the following news release: Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry has published a study showing that malathion used as an agricultural insecticide and pesticide is responsible for interfering with the normal development of pickerel frog

Article: Growing with kin does not bring benefits to tadpoles in a ...
Canadian Journal of Zoology;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Abstract: The effect of intraspecific competition can be modified through the interaction with genetic relatedness among the competing individuals. Theory of kin selection predicts that organisms should modify their behaviour to increase the fitness of their relatives and consequently their

Article: Scientists at University of Washington release new data on ...
Ecology, Environment & Conservation;  September 19, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... loss of biological diversity around the world. Amphibian population losses have been more severe than those of birds and mammals." "Amphibian population declines are likely due to many factors including habitat ...