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Biodiversity & Ecology
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Ecology: Global warming and amphibian losses
- Ross A. Alford, Kay S. Bradfield, Stephen J. Richards,
- Original article citation: Nature 447, (2007).
- Categories: Biodiversity & Ecology and Climate Impacts
- Recommended by: Olive Heffernan on 06/06/2007 09:19PM GMT
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Ross Alford and co-authors question whether global warming is really contributing to amphibian declines and extinctions by promoting outbreaks of a chytrid fungus, as suggested by Alan Pounds and colleagues in a 2006 Nature paper. Using data collected from declining and non-declining frog populations near northern Queensland, Australia, Alford and colleagues present evidence that multiyear warm periods may be more important in amphibian declines than single warm years.
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