Recent surveys and historical data describe vegetation patterns in the coastal salt pond marsh system at Odiorne Point State Park in Rye, New Hampshire, the state's only viable example.
Main elements of this project include: the suitability of existing spatial datasets and classification systems as the basis for sampling design, metrics for various aspects of wetland condition, and synthesizing the results into an ecological integrity scoring system.
This technical bulletin evaluates the state of NatureServe’s scientific methods and information resources in 2004 while also identifying priorities for additional research and data development.
The lack of conservation remedies for the poorly understood decline of amphibian populations worldwide has left hundreds of these species to face extinction.
Forty-two out of 113 species of Harlequin frogs have seen their population cut by at least half, while 30 species are feared extinct. The likely culprits: climate change and the Batrachochytrium fungus.
This review of the best available data on U.S. species posits a dire conclusion the actual number of known species threatened with extinction is more than 10 times greater than the number of species under ESA protection.
Seventeen years ago, the Monteverde harlequin frog and the golden toad vanished from the mountains of Costa Rica. This article traces those and other extinctions to a fungal outbreak spurred by global warming.