Frogs already knew it wasn’t easy being green, but the going just got a lot tougher for the 1,012 additional species of amphibians who have now been newly identified as at risk of extinction in a Yale-led study published in the Journal of Current Biology.  “Amphibians are highly threatened and are declining worldwide at an unprecedented rate,” said lead author Pamela González-del-Pliego, postdoctoral ecologist at Yale. “Unfortunately, it seems that the percentage of threatened amphibians is much higher than we previously knew.”

Pamela González-del-Pliego, Robert P. Freckleton, David P. Edwards, Michelle S. Koo, Brett R. Scheffers, R. Alexander Pyron, Walter Jetz. Phylogenetic and Trait-Based Prediction of Extinction Risk for Data-Deficient Amphibians. 2019. Current Biology 29 (9) 1557-1563

You can read the article published in Current Biology here. For the Yale press release see here.

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