It’s no longer a mystery why amphibians are marching towards extinction. Loss and degradation of habitat is by far the most important factor in their alarmingly rapid decline, according to the largest global analysis to date.
About a third of the world’s amphibian species are threatened with extinction, and almost half of all known species are dwindling. Researchers have identified various threats, but until now the relative importance of each has not been clear.
Navjot Sodhi at the National University of Singapore and colleagues studied environmental and ecological data on 2583 amphibian species, which equates to about 45 per…
