Fingerprints of global warming on wild animals and plants
- T. Root, J. Price, K. Hall, S. Schneider, C. Rosenzweig, J. Pounds
- Environmental ScienceNature
- 2 January 2003
A consistent temperature-related shift is revealed in species ranging from molluscs to mammals and from grasses to trees, suggesting that a significant impact of global warming is already discernible in animal and plant populations.
Biological response to climate change on a tropical mountain
- J. Pounds, M. Fogden, J. H. Campbell
- Environmental ScienceNature
- 15 April 1999
Recent warming has caused changes in species distribution and abundance, but the extent of the effects is unclear. Here we investigate whether such changes in highland forests at Monteverde, Costa…
Widespread amphibian extinctions from epidemic disease driven by global warming
- J. Pounds, Martín R. Bustamante, B. Young
- Environmental ScienceNature
- 12 January 2006
It is shown that a recent mass extinction associated with pathogen outbreaks is tied to global warming, and it is proposed that temperatures at many highland localities are shifting towards the growth optimum of Batrachochytrium, thus encouraging outbreaks.
Amphibian declines and climate disturbance: the case of the golden toad and the harlequin frog
- J. Pounds, M. L. Crump
- Geography
- 1 March 1994
The endemic golden toad (Bufo periglenes) was abundant in Costa Rica’s Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve in April–May 1987 but afterwards disappeared, along with local populations of the harlequin…
Tests of Null Models for Amphibian Declines on a Tropical Mountain
Many of the recent, widespread declines and disappearances of amphibian populations have taken place in seemingly undisturbed, montane habitats. The question of whether the observed patterns differ…
Ecomorphology, Locomotion, and Microhabitat Structure: Patterns in a Tropical Mainland Anolis Community
- J. Pounds
- Environmental Science
- 1987
Differences in locomotor behavior among species reflected not only proximate influences of vegetation structure but also intrinsic tendencies, and ability to exploit various structural environments may depend not only on body shape but also size.
Catastrophic Population Declines and Extinctions in Neotropical Harlequin Frogs (Bufonidae: Atelopus) 1
- E. La Marca, K. Lips, B. Young
- Environmental Science
- 1 June 2005
Widespread declines and extinctions in Atelopus may reflect population changes in other Neotropical amphibians that are more difficult to survey, and the loss of this trophic group may have cascading effects on other species in tropical ecosystems.
Climate and amphibian declines
- J. Pounds
- Environmental ScienceNature
- 5 April 2001
The decline in the numbers of amphibians in many parts of the world is likely to be a key factor — but with complicated links to the immediate causes of these population declines.
Global impacts of the 1980s regime shift
- P. C. Reid, Renata E. Hari, Zaichun Zhu
- Environmental ScienceGlobal Change Biology
- 23 November 2015
Despite evidence from a number of Earth systems that abrupt temporal changes known as regime shifts are important, their nature, scale and mechanisms remain poorly documented and understood. Applying…
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