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Nature 439, 143-144 (12 January 2006) | doi:10.1038/439143a; Published online 11 January 2006
Extinctions: A message from the frogs
Andrew R. Blaustein1 & Andy Dobson2
Abstract
The harlequin frogs of tropical America are at the sharp end of climate change. About two-thirds of their species have died out, and altered patterns of infection because of changes in temperature seem to be the cause.
One of the worries about global climate change is that it will raise the transmission rates of infectious diseases1. On page 161 of this issue, Pounds and colleagues2 provide compelling evidence that anthropogenic climate change has already altered transmission of a pathogen that affects amphibians, leading to widespread population declines and extinctions.
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