Sunday, February 21, 2016

Worldwide Amphibians Declines: How big is the problem, what are the causes and what can be done.

II. Maps of Global Declines (click here)

Numbers of Critically Endangered and Vulnerable species have increased worldwide as quantified in this map colored by biogeographic biomes defined by Wallace and redefined by Holt et al (2012 in Science). 
The tallies of species are: 1) In red: Number of Extinct, Extinct in the wild or Critically Endangered species; 2)In orange, Number of Endangered or Vulnerable species; 3) In white, Total number of species for biome...