Habitat Split and the Global Decline of Amphibians

By C. Becker, C. Fonseca, Célio Fernando Baptista Haddad, R. Batista, P. Prado. Science, 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Habitat fragmentation reduces genetic diversity and connectivity among toad populations in the Brazilian Atlantic Coastal Forest (2009, background): “Fragmentation can cause a separation between these two habitats critical for reproduction, a phenomenon has been termed habitat split (Becker et al., 2007).”
Influence of the environmental heterogeneity of breeding ponds on anuran assemblages from southeastern Brazil (2009, background): “In addition, habitat disconnection caused by human activities in natural areas reduces population size and adversely affects the anuran richness in local assemblages that depend on breeding ponds for reproduction (Becker et al. 2007).”
Integrating species life‐history traits and patterns of deforestation in amphibian conservation planning (2010, methodology): “Because amphibians with aquatic larvae are expected to have a stronger response to habitat split, and species with terrestrial development to habitat loss (Becker et al., 2007), we used these costs as constraints on the analyses.”
Can amphibians take the heat? Vulnerability to climate warming in subtropical and temperate larval amphibian communities (2012, background): “…to warming than are Chacoan ones, they may still be at risk since we have not consi- dered the vulnerability of terrestrial adult frogs, which can be affected by warming-related decreases in air moisture and pathogen outbreaks (Pounds et al., 2006) or by habitat deforestation (Becker et al., 2007).”
Amphibians over the edge: silent extinction risk of Data Deficient species (2014, background): “In addition, threats from habitat loss (Stuart et al., 2004; Cushman, 2006; Becker et al., 2007), wild harvesting for food (Warkentin et al., 2009) and trade (Stuart et al., 2006), and increases in ultraviolet radiation (Kiesecker et al., 2001) are linked to population declines (Beebee & Griffiths,…”
Effects of forest removal on amphibian migrations: implications for habitat and landscape connectivity (2009, background): “MANAGEMENT IMPLICATIONS Previous studies have shown that biphasic amphibians suffer declines in abundance and richness when upland forests are cleared (Gibbs 1998; Herrmann et al. 2005; Becker et al. 2007).”
The challenge of maintaining Atlantic forest biodiversity: A multi-taxa conservation assessment of specialist and generalist species in an agro-forestry mosaic in southern Bahia (2009, background): “Ribon et al., 2003; Gorresen and Willig, 2004; Pardini et al., 2005; Becker et al., 2007; Uehara-Prado et al., 2007; Metzger et al., 2009; Vieira et al., 2009), suggesting that, given the amount of remaining forest and/or the relative suitability of the matrix habitats, most populations of forest ”
Habitat availability for amphibians and extinction threat: a global analysis (2015, background): “The necessary complementation between suitable terrestrial habitats where adults live and suitable water bodies for reproduction means that true habitat requirements of many amphibians are more complex than depicted here (Pope et al., 2000; Becker et al., 2007).”
A global analysis of traits predicting species sensitivity to habitat fragmentation (2017, background): “…also possible that the apparently low sensitivity of amphibians in this analysis is because their presence depends more on whether existing patch mosaics maintain connectivity between their aquatic and terrestrial life-forms than it does on coarse metrics such as patch size (Becker et al., 2007).”
Prospects for tropical forest biodiversity in a human-modified world. (2009, background): “…of modified tree cover frequently depends upon the need for species to access critical food or breeding habitat elsewhere (e.g. in the case of frogs Becker et al. 2007), and the interaction between the habitat quality of the matrix and species-specific differences in dispersal or gap-crossing…”
Humidity levels drive reproductive modes and phylogenetic diversity of amphibians in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (2012, background): “The reason for these differences is that amphibians have highly permeable skin, complex life cycles that are typically dependent on both aquatic and terrestrial environments (Wilbur, 1980; Becker et al., 2007; da Silva et al., 2012), and low dispersal ability (Duellman & Trueb, 1986; Blaustein et al”
Aquatic and terrestrial drivers of dragonfly (Odonata) assemblages within and among north-temperate lakes (2009, background): “Studies comparing the importance of aquatic and terrestrial habitat features for animals that inhabit both of these ecosystems generally have focused on amphibians (Marnell 1998, Scribner et al. 2001, Ficetola et al. 2004, Becker et al. 2007).”