Pounds» earliest research had correctly warned that
the disappearance of amphibians at Monteverde was not just a natural cycle of boom and busts.
Not exact matches
The study confirmed that until we find a way to fight the fungus, the most actionable advice to date is to begin captive breeding, a move suggested in a seminal study
of amphibian disappearance published in Science four years ago.
Martha Crump and Alan Pounds had been studying Monteverde's
amphibians and were understandably distraught by the rapid
disappearance of the Golden Toad and several other local species.
The study's authors, Vance Vredenburg
of San Francisco State University and David Wake
of UC Berkeley, believe the
amphibians»
disappearance is telling us something about our future and that
of millions
of other species.