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The first response to reports of declining amphibian populations was the formation of the Declining Amphibian Population Task Force (DAPTF) in 1990. DAPTF led efforts for increased amphibian population monitoring in order to establish the extent of the problem, and established working groups to look at different issues.
A population that was once in the tens of thousands was down to a mere 3,000. [13] The largest known chorusing groups persist in Bastrop County, but the choruses monitored in Bastrop State Park showed a dramatic decline during the mid-1990s, with little recovery of those numbers since then. Importantly, that state park is the only public land ...
Local mining can cause sediment runoff that reduces stream quality and can even poison frogs. Logging and the resulting forest clearing can pose similar issues to stream quality. The global chytrid fungus epidemic has caused steep declines in Archey's frog populations and is thought to pose a threat to Hochstetter's frogs, as well. [2] [5] [6]
So in 2006 Knapp and other researchers set about to see if the frog population could be saved in fish-free lakes. After long and intense study and preparation they began to reintroduce the fungus ...
Blanchard's cricket frog: Found throughout Texas, except far West Texas and the Panhandle [31] NE Dryophytes arenicolor: Canyon tree frog: Isolated populations in arid environments and streambanks in Texas [32] LC [33] Dryophytes chrysoscelis : Cope's gray tree frog: Documented in east-central Texas [34] LC [35] Dryophytes cinereus: Green tree frog
The population of Morelet's tree frogs are also being affected due to a disease called Chytridiomycosis, which is an infectious disease that kills amphibians. Chytridiomycosis and habitat destruction are projected to cause the population to decline over 80% in the next 10 years. In some regions, the frogs have gone extinct completely.
The largest herd in North America is known as the Porcupine Caribou herd, with a population of over 200,000 reindeer recorded since 2017. Although other herds have seen a decline in their numbers ...
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