Includes bibliographical references (p. 927-1075) and index.
Contents:
Factors implicated in amphibian population declines in the United States / David F. Bradford Why are some species in decline but others not? / Martha L. Crump -- Philosophy, value judgments, and declining amphibians / Sarah Aucoin, Robert G. Jaeger and Steve Giambrone -- Embracing human diversity in conservation / Whit Gibbons -- Declining amphibian populations task force / W. Ronald Heyer and James B. Murphy -- Meeting the challenge of amphibian declines with an interdisciplinary research program / James P. Collins ... [et al.] -- Biology of amphibian declines / David M. Green -- Declines of eastern North American woodland salamanders (Plethodon) / Richard Highton -- Decline of northern cricket frogs (Acris crepitans) / Robert H. Gray and Lauren E. Brown -- Overwintering in northern cricket frogs (Acris crepitans) / Jason T. Irwin -- Repercussions of global change / Jamie K. Reaser and Andrew Blaustein -- Lessons from Europe / K. Henle ; translation by William T. Leja -- Risk factors and declines in northern cricket frogs (Acris crepitans) / Val R. Beasley ... [et al.] -- Ultraviolet radiation / Andrew R. Blaustein and Lisa K. Belden -- Xenobiotics / Christine M. Bridges and Raymond D. Semlitsch -- Variation in pesticide tolerance / Christine M. Bridges and Raymond D. Semlitsch -- LuckeĢ renal adenocarcinoma / Robert G. McKinnell and Debra L. Carlson -- Malformed frogs in Minnesota : history and interspecific differences / David M. Hoppe -- Parasites of North American frogs / Daniel Sutherland -- Parasite infection and limb malformations : a growing problem in amphibian conservation / Pieter T.J. Johnson and Kevin B. Lunde -- Pine silviculture / D. Bruce Means -- Commercial trade / Anthony B. Wilson -- Houston toads and Texas politics / Lauren E. Brown and Ann Mesrobian -- Amphibian conservation needs / Edward D. Koch and Charles R. Peterson -- Amphibian population cycles and long-term data sets / Howard H. Whiteman and Scott A. Wissinger -- Landscape ecology / David E. Naugle ... [et al.] -- Conservation of Texas spring and cave salamanders (Eurycea) / Paul T. Chippindale and Andrew H. Price -- Lessons from the tropics / Karen R. Lips and Maureen A. Donnelly -- Taxonomy and amphibian declines / Sherman A. Minton -- Conservation systematics : the Bufo boreas species group / Anna M. Goebel -- Factors limiting the recovery of boreal toads (Bufo b. boreas) / Cynthia Carey ... [et al.] -- Southwestern desert bufonids / Brian K. Sullivan -- Amphibian ecotoxicology / Raymond D. Semlitsch and Christine M. Bridges -- Museum collections / John W. Ferner, Jeffrey G. Davis and Paul J. Krusling -- Critical areas / Hugh R. Quinn and Colleen Scott -- Creating habitat reserves for migratory salamanders / Suzanne C. Fowle and Scott M. Melvin -- Population manipulations / C. Kenneth Dodd, Jr. -- Exotic species / Walter E. Meshaka, Jr. -- Protecting amphibians while restoring fish populations / Debra Patla -- Reflections upon amphibian conservation / Thomas K. Pauley -- Distribution of South Dakota anurans / David E. Naugle ... [et al.] -- Nebraska's declining amphibians / David S. McLeod -- Museum collections can assess population trends / Jeff Boundy -- Monitoring salamander populations in Great Smoky Mountains National Park / Erin J. Hyde and Theodore R. Simons -- North American Amphibian Monitoring Program (NAAMP) / Linda A. Weir and Michael J. Mossman -- Evaluating calling surveys / Sam Droege and Paige Eagle -- Geographical information systems and survey designs / Charles R. Peterson, Stephen R. Burton and Debra A. Patla -- Impacts of forest management on amphibians / Rochelle B. Renken -- Monitoring pigment pattern morphs of northern leopard frogs / Robert G. McKinnell, David M. Hoppe and Beverly K. McKinnell -- The National Amphibian Conservation Center / Andrew T. Snider and Elizabeth Arbaugh -- A thousand friends of frogs : its origins / Tony P. Murphy -- Of men and deformed frogs : a journalist's lament / William Souder -- Species accounts : Introduction / Michael Lannoo ... [et al.] -- Anura -- Caudata -- Factors implicated in amphibian population declines in the United States / David F. Bradford
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