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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.
EN [19] ‡ Anaxyrus punctatus: Red-spotted toad: Found in central and western Texas [20] LC [21] Anaxyrus speciosus: Texas toad: Common throughout western two-thirds of Texas, population declining in the Rio Grande Valley [22] LC [23] Anaxyrus woodhousii: Woodhouse's toad: Found in central, west and north Texas [24] LC [25] Incilius nebulifer
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 ...
The population of the mountain chicken frog, once abundant in the Caribbean, has dropped by over 99% in 20 years due to a deadly fungal disease. Giant chicken frog faces extinction due to a deadly ...
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Officials say the crawfish frog likely was at the site during that period, as well, and remained in place until the mid to late 1980s, when they "vanished suddenly and mysteriously, possibly ...
Part of a series on the COVID-19 pandemic Scientifically accurate atomic model of the external structure of SARS-CoV-2. Each "ball" is an atom. COVID-19 (disease) SARS-CoV-2 (virus) Cases Deaths Timeline 2019 2020 January responses February responses March responses April responses May responses June responses July responses August responses September responses October responses November ...
Worldwide amphibian populations have been on a steady decline due to an increase in the disease chytridiomycosis, caused by the Bd fungus. [ citation needed ] Bd can be introduced to an amphibian primarily through water exposure, colonizing the digits and ventral surfaces of the animal's body most heavily and spreading throughout the body as ...