Global amphibian declines: sorting the hypotheses

By James P. Collins, Andrew Storfer. 2003

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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A Synthesis of Evidence of Drivers of Amphibian Declines (2020, background): “Accumulated evidence from many field studies has led to a general consensus on the major factors driving amphibian declines (Collins and Storfer 2003; Sodhi et al. 2008; Hof et al. 2011) but consistent evidence for a single driver (or group of drivers) at larger scales is lacking.”
Paradox, presumption and pitfalls in conservation biology: The importance of habitat change for amphibians and reptiles. (2007, background): “…that the last two decades have witnessed a shift in the research attention of studies concerned with amphibian declines away from the consequences of habitat loss and towards a focus on non-structural threats (‘‘Class II’’ hypotheses) (Collins and Storfer, 2003; Beebee and Griffiths, 2005).”
Ecological Ethics: Building a New Tool Kit for Ecologists and Biodiversity Managers (2005, background): “Beginning in the late 1980s many amphibian populations declined and some species most likely have become extinct (Collins & Storfer 2003; Stuart et al. 2004).”
The amphibian chytrid fungus along an altitudinal transect before the first reported declines in Costa Rica (2006, result): “We strongly support the conclusion of Collins and Storfer (2003) that only with an integrated team of multidisciplinary scientists will we eventually understand why highland anurans are disappearing in the tropics.”
Anurans as prey: an exploratory analysis and size relationships between predators and their prey (2007, background): “…Leptodactylus fallax, Le. labyrinthicus, Le. ocellatus, Le. pentadactylus (Central and South America), Hoplobatrachus rugulosus (Asia) and Rana temporaria (Europe) (Beebee, 1996; Collins & Storfer, 2003; AmphibiaWeb, 2005; Zina & Haddad, 2005; L. F. Toledo & C. F. B. Haddad, unpubl. data).”
Predicting the Distribution of the Amphibian Pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in the New World 1 (2005, background): “Amphibian species with a low susceptibility to B. dendrobatidis can act as reservoirs for the disease in the wild (Collins & Storfer 2003).”
THE AMPHIBIAN TREE OF LIFE (2006, background): “…including habitat loss and fragmentation (Green, 2005; Halliday, 2005) but also possibly due to global environmental changes (Donnelly and Crump, 1998; Blaustein and Kiesecker, 2002; Heyer, 2003; Licht, 2003) and such proximate causes as emerging infectious diseases (Collins and Storfer, 2003).”
Conservation of newt guilds in an agricultural landscape of Belgium: the importance of aquatic and terrestrial habitats (2008, background): “In a recent review, Collins and Storfer (2003) reported five main causes of amphibian decline: introduction of alien species, habitat alteration, over-exploitation, global change and infectious diseases.”
Global warming and biodiversity: Evidence of climate-linked amphibian declines in Italy (2009, background): “However, a number of additional threats have been recognized recently, including diseases, invasive species, pollution, over-exploitation (e.g. Alford and Richards, 1999; Collins and Storfer, 2003; Stuart et al., 2004).”
Global emergence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and amphibian chytridiomycosis in space, time, and host. (2009, background): “Toadlets kept on a 5◦/30◦C diel temperature schedule for 42 days survived (24).”
Catastrophic Population Declines and Extinctions in Neotropical Harlequin Frogs (Bufonidae: Atelopus) 1 (2005, background): “Laboratory experiments show that Bd can cause mortality in most tested species of frogs (Berger et al. 1998, Daszak et al. 2003), although some amphibians may be resistant (e.g., Davidson et al. 2003).”
Mechanisms of disease‐induced extinction (2004, background): “Fandos, P. (1991). La cabra montés Capra pyrenaica en el Parque Natural de las Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas. ICONACSIC, Madrid, Spain. Fellers, G.M., Green, D.E. & Longcore, J.E. (2001). Oral chytridiomycosis in the mountain yellow-legged frog (Rana muscosa).”
The chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis is non‐randomly distributed across amphibian breeding habitats (2007, background): “Furthermore, our study brings us a major step closer to resolving the puzzle of declining amphibian populations (Blaustein & Wake, 1995; Collins & Storfer, 2003; McCallum, 2005).”
Survivorship in Wild Frogs Infected with Chytridiomycosis (2006, background): “Some infected populations of a species may decline, while other infected populations of the same species do not (McDonald and Alford, 1999), and declining species may coexist with nondeclining species at an infected site (Lips, 1999; Carey, 2000; Collins and Storfer, 2003).”