08-01-2013Former Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri on Sunday said the Philippine cobra (Naja philippinensis) and 12 other reptiles have joined the…
07-01-2013The fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd ) causes a lethal skin disease of amphibians, chytridiomycosis, which has caused catastrophic amphibian die-offs…- 07-01-2013There is growing evidence that a new class of pesticides -- nerve toxins called neonicotinoids, which are used on most…
07-01-2013Amphibians are currently suffering devastating declines and extinctions in nearly all parts of the world due to the emerging infectious…
07-01-2013Pathogenic diseases and environmental contaminants are two of the leading hypotheses for global amphibian declines, yet few studies have examined…
07-01-2013We show that the widely used herbicide, atrazine, was the best predictor (out of more than 240 plausible candidates) of…
07-01-2013Environmental contaminants and disease may synergistically contribute to amphibian population declines. Sub-lethal levels of contaminants can suppress amphibian immune defenses…
07-01-2013Greater than 70% of the world's amphibian species are in decline. We propose that there is probably not a single…
07-01-2013Many, but not all, amphibian populations have been declining on all six continents on which they live. Although habitat destruction,…
06-01-2013Native populations of the sand lizard (Lacerta agilis) have been lost from the English counties of Berkshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Devon,…
