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Article: BIODIVERSITY: SALAMANDER POPULATION ON DECLINE, SCIENTISTS FIND
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
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- February 23, 2009
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Stephen Leahy /Tierramrica *
Inter Press Service English News Wire
02-23-2009
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 1970s in
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