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Nature 462, 38-39 (5 November 2009) | doi:10.1038/462038a; Published online 4 November 2009
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Amphibian mystery misread
J. Alan Pounds1 & Karen L. Masters2
Abstract
A book blaming a fungus for the disappearance of amphibians from wild places wrongly downplays the role of environmental change, warn Alan Pounds and Karen Masters.
BOOK REVIEWED-Extinction in Our Times: Global Amphibian Decline
by James P. Collins & Martha L. Crump
Oxford University Press: 2009. 304 pp. $29.95
Across the globe, frogs, toads and salamanders are disappearing, even in protected habitats. In Extinction in Our Times, James Collins and Martha Crump try to reassure us that these vanishing creatures are not warning of large-scale environmental deterioration like canaries in a coal mine, but are simply "telling us that they themselves are in trouble".
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