Amphibian Decline or Extinction? Current Declines Dwarf Background Extinction Rate

By M. Mccallum. 2007

308 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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In Ecological Modeling

1. J. Gibbons
2. T. Luhring
3. B. Rothermel
4. Brian D. Todd
5. D. Wake
6. V. Vredenburg
7. D. Hocking
8. Kimberly J. Babbitt

In Ecology

1. Brian D. Todd
2. T. Luhring
3. J. Gibbons
4. B. Rothermel
5. D. Wake
6. V. Vredenburg
7. D. Hocking
8. Kimberly J. Babbitt

In Global and Planetary Change

1. Brian D. Todd
2. J. Gibbons
3. T. Luhring
4. B. Rothermel
5. Bravo
6. Rivera
7. Carlos
8. Luís

Citations in the corpus

• Amphibian Contributions to Ecosystem Services (2014, background): “Even given the challenges of comparing historic and modern extinctions, it is clear from the fossil record that the current rate of extinction far exceeds baseline extinction (McCallum 2007; Roelants et al. 2007; Barnosky et al. 2011).”
• The Sixth Mass Extinction: fact, fiction or speculation? (2022, unknown): “For amphibians, McCallum (2007) estimated modern extinction rates (based on IUCN Red List data) of 10 – 61 E/MSY.”
• Invasion Complexities: The Diverse Impacts of Nonnative Species on Amphibians (2014, unknown): “extinction rate (McCallum, 2007).”
• Variable response of anuran calling activity to daily precipitation and temperature: implications for climate change (2013, background): “The use of long-term and continuous PAM is particularly important since amphibians are becoming extinct 200 times faster than the background rate (McCallum 2007, Roelants et al. 2007), and the populations of more than 40% of amphibian species are declining (Alford and Richards 1999, Stuart et al.…”
• Are we in the midst of the sixth mass extinction? A view from the world of amphibians (2008, background): “A recent study estimates that current rates of extinction are 211 times the background extinction rate for amphibians, and rates would be as high as 25,000–45,000 times greater if all of the currently threatened species go extinct (61).”
• Effects of forest removal on amphibian migrations: implications for habitat and landscape connectivity (2009, background): “Indeed, current global extinction rates are estimated to be many times greater than background rates revealed from the fossil record (Wilson 1999; McCallum 2007).”