Complex causes of amphibian population declines

By Joseph Kiesecker, A. Blaustein, L. Belden. Nature, 2001

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Optical characteristics of natural waters protect amphibians from UV-B in the U.S. Pacific Northwest (2002, methodology): “…average depth of eggs laid by the four focal species based on a combination of individual accounts of species breeding habits (Slater 1936, Kezer and Farner 1955, Kiesecker et al. 2001) and field observations (C. A. Pearl and W. J. Palen, unpublished data; K. O. Richter, personal communication).”
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Demographic Processes Underlying Population Growth and Decline in Salamandra salamandra (2005, background): “…or because most amphibian ecologists assume tacitly or explicitly that the aquatic stage (i.e., variation in gains) drives amphibian population dynamics (Wilbur & Collins 1973; Wilbur 1980; Pechmann & Wilbur 1994; Alford & Richards 1999; Kiesecker et al. 2001; Boone & Bridges 2003; Semlitsch 2003).”
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Spatial Tests of the Pesticide Drift, Habitat Destruction, UV‐B, and Climate‐Change Hypotheses for California Amphibian Declines (2002, background): “…analyze the spatial implications of two other important hypotheses for declines: disease (for a review see Carey et al. 1999) and introduced species (e.g., Hayes & Jennings 1986; Fisher & Shaffer 1996; Kupferberg 1997; Adams 1999; Lawler et al. 1999; Knapp & Matthews 2000; Kiesecker et al. 2001b).”
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