Are we in the midst of the sixth mass extinction? A view from the world of amphibians

By D. Wake, V. Vredenburg. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2008

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, Social Psychology

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Influences of Design and Landscape Placement Parameters on Amphibian Abundance in Constructed Wetlands (2010, background): “Amphibians are a threatened vertebrate group (Stuart et al. 2004; Wake and Vredenburg 2008) and habitat alteration and destruction contribute heavily to declines (Gardner et al. 2007).”
Quaternary palaeoecology and nature conservation: a general review with examples from the neotropics (2011, background): “Some believe that the ongoing and future human-induced global biodiversity reduction is comparable to one of the five major extinctions that have occurred in the geological history of Earth (Courtillot, 1999), and they term it the sixth extinction (Wake and Vredenburg, 2008).”
Movement ecology of amphibians: A missing component for understanding population declines (2014, background): “2% of species worldwide are experiencing some form of population decrease (Stuart et al., 2004; Wake and Vredenburg, 2008).”
Global emergence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and amphibian chytridiomycosis in space, time, and host. (2009, background): “The global impact of Bd is likely to substantially increase the risk of extinction for many amphibian species if efforts to constrain and mitigate the panzootic are not rapidly undertaken (120).”
The pond network: can structural connectivity reflect on (amphibian) biodiversity patterns? (2011, background): “In conservation terms, amphibians are the most endangered vertebrates worldwide (Wake and Vredenburg 2008).”
Can amphibians take the heat? Vulnerability to climate warming in subtropical and temperate larval amphibian communities (2012, background): “Amphibians are considered the most globally threa- tened group of vertebrates (Wake & Vredenburg, 2008) with around 41% of its species classified as threatened (Hoffmann et al., 2010).”
The Sixth Mass Extinction: fact, fiction or speculation? (2022, positive): “She is by no means the ﬁ rst to have drawn this conclusion (e.g. Diamond, 1987, 1989; Leakey & Lewin, 1995; Wake & Vredenburg, 2008) and it continues to be reiterated (e.g. Ceballos et al ., 2015; McCallum, 2015; Régnier et al ., 2015 a ; Plotnick, Smith & Lyons, 2016; Ceballos, Ehrlich & Dirzo,…”
Additive threats from pathogens, climate and land-use change for global amphibian diversity (2011, background): “ppt"/> Amphibian population declines far exceed those of other vertebrate groups, with 30% of all species listed as threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Natur”
Prescriptive Evolution to Conserve and Manage Biodiversity (2014, background): “Whole amphibian faunae are threatened by chytrid fungus (Wake & Vredenburg 2008), to which there appears to be limited standing genetic www.annualreviews.org • Prescriptive Evolution 1.13 Changes may still occur before final publication online and in print A nn u.”
Mapping China's freshwater fishes: diversity and biogeography (2014, background): “Presently, the worldwide biota is entering into a sixth mass extinction (Dirzo and Raven 2003; Wake and Vredenburg 2008; Barnosky et al. 2011).”
Dynamics of an emerging disease drive large-scale amphibian population extinctions (2010, background): “Chytridiomycosis is a major driver of an ongoing global mass extinction event (31) in amphibians, but field interventions designed to reduce disease impacts by altering Bd–host dynamics have only just begun.”
The effect of captivity on the cutaneous bacterial community of the critically endangered Panamanian golden frog (Atelopus zeteki) (2014, background): “It has even been suggested that we are currently witnessing a sixth mass extinction (Wake and Vredenburg, 2008).”