"Global threat to amphibians; Frogs most at risk from spreading trio of dangers" November 17, 2011|By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Frogs, salamanders, and other amphibians may eventually have no safe haven left on the globe because of a triple threat of worsening scourges, a new study predicts.
Scientists have long known that amphibians are under attack from a killer fungus, climate change, and shrinking habitat. In the study appearing online yesterday in the journal Nature, computer models project that in about 70 years those three threats will spread, leaving no part of the world immune from one of the problems.
Frogs seem to have the most worrisome outlook, said study lead author Christian Hof of the Biodiversity and Climate Research Center in Frankfurt.
Meanwhile, federal scientists in the United States are meeting in St. Louis this week to monitor the situation and figure out how to reverse it....
“It’s no fun being a frog,’’ said Stuart Pimm, a prominent biodiversity conservationist from Duke University who was not part of Hof’s study or the USGS effort....
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