The effects of amphibian population declines on the structure and function of Neotropical stream ecosystems

By M. Whiles, K. Lips, Catherine M. Pringle, S. Kilham, R. Bixby, Roberto Brenes, S. Connelly, J. C. Colón-Gaud, Meshagae Hunte-Brown, A. Huryn and 2 more. 2006

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Citations in the corpus

• Ecosystem services provided by amphibians and reptiles in Neotropical ecosystems (2013, background): “Many rural and urban populations in the Neotropics use certain species of amphibians (mainly frogs) as good-luck charms because they symbolize fertility or represent the flowering process.”
• Alien species in fresh waters: ecological effects, interactions with other stressors, and prospects for the future (2010, background): “Amphibians play important roles in small-stream and pond ecosystems, so the near-disappearance of once-abundant amphibians probably has important, varied ecological consequences (Whiles et al., 2006).”
• Adapt or disperse: understanding species persistence in a changing world (2010, background): “However, patterns of extinction can only be understood by taking into account a pathogenic chitrid fungus, Batrachochitrium sp. that grows on the skin of the tropical frogs (Pounds et al., 2006; Whiles et al., 2006).”
• What do tadpoles really eat? Assessing the trophic status of an understudied and imperiled group of consumers in freshwater habitats (2007, methodology): “Tadpoles are found in a variety of freshwater habitats, and although they are most conspicuous in standing water habitats in temperate zones, tadpole assemblages can also be very abundant and diverse in lotic habitats in the tropics (e.g. Inger, Voris & Frogner, 1986; Whiles et al., 2006).”
• Stream microbial ecology (2010, background): “Chytrid fungi are especially interesting because they can infect/kill amphibians, and thereby affect the distribution of an important top consumer (Whiles et al. 2006).”
• Biodiversity Losses and Ecosystem Function in Freshwaters: Emerging Conclusions and Research Directions (2010, background): “In Venezuelan rivers, the magnitude of top-down effects of benthivorous grazing fishes on organic material in sediments is a function of seasonal changes in water level (Winemiller et al. 2006).”
• Impacts of habitat loss and restoration on amphibian populations (2009, background): “2006), being essential food supply for predators (Blaustein and Wake 1995), significant consumers of algae and phytoplankton (Whiles et al. 2006) and keystone predators of invertebrates (Davic and Welsh 2004, DuRant and Hopkins 2008).”
• Variable response of anuran calling activity to daily precipitation and temperature: implications for climate change (2013, background): “In addition, E. coqui has been found that they are very sedentary, moving in average 4.5 m per night (Woolbright 1985).”