TY - JOUR
T1 - Ongoing harlequin toad declines suggest the amphibian extinction crisis is still an emergency
AU - Lötters, Stefan
AU - Plewnia, Amadeus
AU - Catenazzi, Alessandro
AU - Neam, Kelsey
AU - Acosta-Galvis, Andrés R.
AU - Alarcon Vela, Yesenia
AU - Allen, Joshua P.
AU - Alfaro Segundo, Juan O.
AU - de Lourdes Almendáriz Cabezas, Ana
AU - Alvarado Barboza, Gilbert
AU - Alves-Silva, Kleiton R.
AU - Anganoy-Criollo, Marvin
AU - Arbeláez Ortiz, Ernesto
AU - Arpi Lojano, Jackeline D.
AU - Arteaga, Alejandro
AU - Ballestas, Onil
AU - Barrera Moscoso, Diego
AU - Barros-Castañeda, José D.
AU - Batista, Abel
AU - Bernal, Manuel H.
AU - Betancourt, Esteban
AU - da Cunha Bitar, Youszef Oliveira
AU - Böning, Philipp
AU - Bravo-Valencia, Laura
AU - Cáceres Andrade, José F.
AU - Cadenas, Diego
AU - Chaparro Auza, Juan Carlos
AU - Chaves-Portilla, Giovanni A.
AU - Chávez, Germán
AU - Coloma, Luis A.
AU - Cortez-Fernandez, Claudia F.
AU - Courtois, Elodie A.
AU - Culebras, Jaime
AU - De la Riva, Ignacio
AU - Diaz, Vladimir
AU - Elizondo Lara, Luis C.
AU - Ernst, Raffael
AU - Flechas, Sandra V.
AU - Foch, Thibaut
AU - Fouquet, Antoine
AU - García Méndez, Carmen Z.
AU - García-Pérez, Juan Elias
AU - Gómez-Hoyos, Diego A.
AU - Gomides, Samuel C.
AU - Guerrel, Jorge
AU - Gratwicke, Brian
AU - Guayasamin, Juan M.
AU - Griffith, Edgardo
AU - Herrera-Alva, Valia
AU - Ibáñez, Roberto
AU - Idrovo, Carlos Iván
AU - Jiménez Monge, Andrés
AU - Jorge, Rafael F.
AU - Jung, Alisha
AU - Klocke, Blake
AU - Lampo, Margarita
AU - Lehr, Edgar
AU - Lewis, Carrie H.R.
AU - Lindquist, Erik D.
AU - López-Perilla, Yeny R.
AU - Mazepa, Glib
AU - Medina-Rangel, Guido F.
AU - Merino Viteri, Andrés
AU - Mulder, Kevin
AU - Pacheco-Suarez, Mauricio
AU - Pereira-Muñoz, Andry
AU - Pérez-González, José Luis
AU - Pinto Erazo, Maria Alejandra
AU - Pisso Florez, Adolfo Gustavo
AU - Ponce, Marcos
AU - Poole, Vicky
AU - Quezada Riera, Amanda B.
AU - Quiroz, Aarón J.
AU - Quiroz-Espinoza, Michelle
AU - Ramírez Guerra, Alejandro
AU - Ramírez, Juan P.
AU - Reichle, Steffen
AU - Reizine, Hugo
AU - Rivera-Correa, Mauricio
AU - Roca-Rey Ross, Bernardo
AU - Rocha-Usuga, Andrés
AU - Rodrigues, Miguel Trefaut
AU - Rojas Montaño, Sintana
AU - Rößler, Daniela C.
AU - Rueda Solano, Luis Alberto
AU - Señaris, Celsa
AU - Shepack, Alexander
AU - Siavichay Pesántez, Fausto R.
AU - Sorokin, Anton
AU - Terán-Valdez, Andrea
AU - Torres-Ccasani, Grecia
AU - Tovar-Siso, Pablo C.
AU - Valencia, Lina M.
AU - Velásquez-Trujillo, David A.
AU - Veith, Michael
AU - Venegas, Pablo J.
AU - Villalba-Fuentes, Jeferson
AU - von May, Rudolf
AU - Webster Bernal, Juan F.
AU - La Marca, Enrique
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s).
PY - 2023/11/11
Y1 - 2023/11/11
N2 - Biodiversity loss is extreme in amphibians. Despite ongoing conservation action, it is difficult to determine where we stand in overcoming their extinction crisis. Among the most threatened amphibians are the 131 Neotropical harlequin toads. Many of them declined since the 1980s with several considered possibly extinct. Recently, more than 30 species have been rediscovered, raising hope for a reversing trend in the amphibian extinction crisis. We use past and present data available for harlequin toads (Atelopus), to examine whether the amphibian extinction crisis is still in an emergency state. Since 2004 no species has improved its population status, suggesting that recovery efforts have not been successful. Threats include habitat change, pathogen spread and climate change. More mitigation strategies need implementation, especially habitat protection and disease management, combined with captive conservation breeding. With harlequin toads serving as a model, it is clear that the amphibian extinction crisis is still underway.
AB - Biodiversity loss is extreme in amphibians. Despite ongoing conservation action, it is difficult to determine where we stand in overcoming their extinction crisis. Among the most threatened amphibians are the 131 Neotropical harlequin toads. Many of them declined since the 1980s with several considered possibly extinct. Recently, more than 30 species have been rediscovered, raising hope for a reversing trend in the amphibian extinction crisis. We use past and present data available for harlequin toads (Atelopus), to examine whether the amphibian extinction crisis is still in an emergency state. Since 2004 no species has improved its population status, suggesting that recovery efforts have not been successful. Threats include habitat change, pathogen spread and climate change. More mitigation strategies need implementation, especially habitat protection and disease management, combined with captive conservation breeding. With harlequin toads serving as a model, it is clear that the amphibian extinction crisis is still underway.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85176282933
U2 - 10.1038/s43247-023-01069-w
DO - 10.1038/s43247-023-01069-w
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:85176282933
SN - 2662-4435
VL - 4
JO - Communications Earth and Environment
JF - Communications Earth and Environment
IS - 1
M1 - 412
ER -
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