• Related OUP Books: Sustaining Life |a Eric Chivian and Aaron Bernstein Amphibians and Reptiles of New York State |a James P. Gibbs, Alvin R. Breisch, Peter K. Ducey, Glenn Johnson, John Behler and Richard Bothner The Nature Handbook: A Guide to Observing the Great Outdoors |a Ernest H. Williams
• Documents the definitive treatment of the first modern extinction event across an entire vertebrate class, using global examples
• First book to synthesize issues of this complex environmental phenomenon
• Provides unique opportunity to study the critical biology of extinction
• Contains evidence that suggests human actions could be a major cause of amphibian declines
• Focus on climate change, conservation of biodiversity, and a range of related ecological, evolutionary, philosophical and socialogical issues
• Mixes scientific authority with a satisfying story-telling approach with a great appeal to the educated lay-person
• Foreword by noted environmentalist Thomas Lovejoy, President of the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment

Readership: general readers, naturalists, conservation biologists, environmental science professionals, and academic herpetologists world wide. Also, their students in graduate seminar courses. National, state, and local government conservation agency personnel, park managers; school and university libraries

James P. Collins and Martha L. Crump, Professor of Biology, Northern Arizona University

Preface
1: Declining Amphibian Populations and the Biodiversity Crisis
2: Rallying Around the Issue of Amphibian Declines
3: Challenges, Correlates, and Hypotheses
4: Introduced Species, Commerce, and Land Use Change
5: Contaminants, Global Change, and Emerging Infectious Diseases
6: Unraveling the Mystery
7: Amphibian Chytrid Fungus as a Cause of Declines and Extinctions
8: How Can Science and Conservation Make a Difference?
9: Science Policy and Reacting to a Challenge
10: Leaping between Mysteries
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