Climate change and amphibian declines: is there a link?

By C. Carey, M. Alexander. 2003

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change

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Global amphibian declines: sorting the hypotheses (2003, background): “Global change, land use change or alien species acting alone or together are among many environmental sources of stress that could increase disease susceptibility or virulence (Carey et al ., 2003; Blaustein et al. , 2003; Carey & Alexander, 2003).”
The amphibian decline crisis: A watershed for conservation biology? (2005, background): “There is currently no evidence that climate change has led to tolerance limits in temperature or moisture being exceeded in amphibians (Carey and Alexander, 2003).”
Global warming and biodiversity: Evidence of climate-linked amphibian declines in Italy (2009, background): “these studies were based mainly on anecdotal evidences, although together they suggest a causal relation (Carey and Alexander, 2003).”
Climate change and amphibians (2005, background): “, amphibian breeding phenology is controlled by snowmelt, and low winter precipitation results in earlier breeding (Corn & Muths, 2002; Corn, 2003). Earlier breeding reduces exposure of embryos to UV–B (Merilä et al., 2000; Corn & Muths, 2002). Lost Lake, the primary study site of Kiesecker et al. (”
Climate warming and the decline of amphibians and reptiles in Europe (2006, background): “Climate change is amongst the many hypotheses postulated to explain these declines (Alford & Richards, 1999; Gibbons et al., 2000; Kiesecker et al., 2001; Carey & Alexander, 2003; Collins & Storfer, 2003; Corn, 2005).”
Variable response of anuran calling activity to daily precipitation and temperature: implications for climate change (2013, background): “On the other hand, the effects of climate as a direct driver of extinctions are less clear (e.g., Carey and Alexander 2003, Minter 2011).”
Amphibian declines: future directions (2003, background): “…UV-B radiation, chemical contaminants (Blaustein et al., 2003), emerging infectious diseases (Daszak et al., 2003) and global © 2003 Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Diversity and Distributions, 9, 151–163 climate change (Carey & Alexander, 2003), all of which detrimentally affect other organisms.”
The effects of amphibian population declines on the structure and function of Neotropical stream ecosystems (2006, background): “While direct links between individual mortality, population declines, and climate change are lacking, interactions between climate change and other agents are likely (Carey and Alexander 2003). www.frontiersinecology.org ?”
Catastrophic Population Declines and Extinctions in Neotropical Harlequin Frogs (Bufonidae: Atelopus) 1 (2005, background): “Some data indicate an indirect effect of climate change on breeding activities and perhaps infectious disease (reviewed in Carey & Alexander 2003), but only further research will clarify what role climate change plays in declines of Atelopus species.”
Phylogenetic signals in the climatic niches of the world's amphibians (2010, background): “…(temperature extremes, amount and seasonality of precipitation) which are known to impose constraints on the occurrence and survival of amphibians (Carey and Alexander 2003, Wells 2007), and are often used to model the geographical distributions of individual species (Araújo et al. 2006) and…”
ECOTOXICOLOGY OF AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES (2002, background): “Climate change, which has been cited as a possible mechanism of amphibian population decline (e.g., Davidson et al. 2001; Pounds 2001; Carey and Alexander 2003; Daszak et al. 2005), has not received rigorous investigation.”
Energy and interspecific body size patterns of amphibian faunas in Europe and North America: anurans follow Bergmann's rule, urodeles its converse (2007, background): “Increased heat and sunlight (particularly in the ultraviolet spectrum) have been hypothesized to drive amphibian declines (Carey & Alexander, 2003), and we found that the main predictor of body size gradients for both anurans and urodeles is PET, a measure combining the availability of these two…”
Integrative inventory of Bolivia’s lowland anurans reveals hidden diversity (2011, background): “Additionally, amphibians are the group of terrestrial vertebrates probably most vulnerable to climate change (e.g. Carey & Alexander 2003; Marquez et al. 2008), and habitat loss is still one of the major threats for amphibians (e.g. Stuart et al. 2004; review in Cushman 2006).”
Equilibrium of species’ distributions with climate (2005, methodology): “The climate matrix was constructed with seven climate variables (described in Arau ´ jo et al. 2004a) identified from the literature as being key determinants of physiological processes limiting distributions of plant (Prentice et al. 1992), bird (Lennon et al. 2000) and amphibian ( Carey and Alexan”
Direct and Indirect Effects of Climate Change on Amphibian Populations (2010, background): “Climate change and other changes in the environment that are global in nature have been recognized as potential problems for amphibian populations by a number of investigators [19,26-30].”