Thursday, May 23, 2013

Study: Alarming Loss of Amphibian Populations Across US | Common Dreams

Study: Alarming Loss of Amphibian Populations Across US | Common Dreams
"In their study, Trends in Amphibian Occupancy in the United States in the journal PLOS ONE, the team of scientists looked at looked at 34 sites and 48 species to see how fast clusters of amphibians disappeared from ponds, lakes and other amphibian habitats from 2002 - 2011.
What they found, said Brian Gratwicke, an amphibian conservation biologist with the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, "is very bad news for amphibians"."