volume 622 issue 7982 pages 308-314

Ongoing declines for the world’s amphibians in the face of emerging threats

Jennifer Luedtke 1, 2
Janice Chanson 1, 2
Kelsey D Neam 1, 2
Louise Hobin 2
ADRIANO O. MACIEL 3
Alessandro Catenazzi 4, 5
Amaël Borzée 2, 6
Amir Hamidy 7
Anchalee Aowphol 8
JEAN ANDERSON 9, 10
Ángel Sosa-Bartuano 11
ANSEL FONG G. 12
Anslem de Silva 13
Antoine Fouquet 14
ARIADNE ANGULO 2
Artem A. Kidov 15
Arturo Muñoz Saravia 16, 17
ARVIN C. DIESMOS 18, 19
Atsushi Tominaga 20, 21
BIRAJ SHRESTHA 22, 23
Brian Gratwicke 24
BURHAN TJATURADI 25
Carlos C. Martínez Rivera 26, 27
Carlos R. Vásquez Almazán 28, 29
Celsa Señaris 30
S. R. CHANDRAMOULI 31
Christine Strüssmann 32
Claudia Fabiola Cortez Fernández 16, 33
C. AZAT 34
Conrad J. Hoskin 35
Craig Hilton-Taylor 36
Damion L. Whyte 37
David J. Gower 38
Deanna H Olson 39
Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia 40, 41
Diego J. Santana 42
Elizah Nagombi 43
Elnaz Najafi-Majd 44
EVAN S.H. QUAH 45, 46
FEDERICO BOLAÑOS 47, 48
Feng Xie 49
Francisco Brusquetti 50
Francisco S. Álvarez 51
Franco Andreone 52
Frank Glaw 53
Franklin Enrique Castañeda 54
Fred Kraus 55
Gabriela Parra-Olea 56
Gerardo Chaves 48
GUIDO FABIAN MEDINA-RANGEL 57
Gustavo González-Durán 58
H. Mauricio Ortega-Andrade 59, 60
IBERE F. MACHADO 61
Indraneil Das 62
Iuri Ribeiro Dias 63
J Nicolas Urbina Cardona 64
Jelka Crnobrnja-Isailovic 65
Jian-Huan Yang 66
Jianping Jiang 49
Jigme Tshelthrim Wangyal 67, 68
JODI J. L. ROWLEY 69, 70
John Measey 71, 72
Karthikeyan Vasudevan 73
Kin Onn Chan 46
KOTAMBYLU VASUDEVA GURURAJA 74
Kristiina Ovaska 75, 76
Lauren C. Warr 77
Luis Canseco-Márquez 78
Luis Gustavo M Toledo 79
Luis M Díaz 80
M. Monirul H. Khan 81
Madhava Meegaskumbura 82
Manuel E. Acevedo 83
MARCELO FELGUEIRAS NAPOLI 84
Marcos A. Ponce 85
MARCOS VAIRA 86
Margarita Lampo 87, 88
Mario H. Yánez-Muñoz 89
MARK D. SCHERZ 90
Mark-Oliver Rödel 91
Masafumi Matsui 92
Maxon Fildor 9
Mirza D. Kusrini 93
Mohammad Firoz Ahmed 94
Muhammad Rais 95
Ngoran G Kouamé 96
Nieves García 97
NONO LEGRAND GONWOUO 98
P Burrowes 99
Paul Y. Imbun 100
Philipp Wagner 101, 102
PHILIPPE J. R. KOK 103, 104
Rafael L Joglar 105, 106
Renoir J. Auguste 107
Reuber Albuquerque Brandão 108
Roberto Ibáñez 109
RUDOLF VON MAY 110
S. Blair Hedges 111
S. D. BIJU 112
S R Ganesh 113
Sally Wren 2, 114
Sandeep Das 115, 116
Sandra V. Flechas 117
Sara L Ashpole 118, 119
Silvia J. Robleto-Hernández 120
Simon P Loader 38
Sixto J. Incháustegui 121
SONALI GARG 112, 122
Somphouthone Phimmachak 123
Stephen J. Richards 124
Tahar Slimani 125
Tamara Osborne Naikatini 126
Tatianne Piza Ferrari Abreu‐Jardim 61
Thais H Condez 127
Thiago R De Carvalho 128
CHRISTOPHER PORTWAY 69, 70
TODD W. PIERSON 129
Truong Q. Nguyen 130
Uğur Kaya 44
ZHIYONG YUAN 131
Barney Long 1
Penny Langhammer 1, 132
Simon N Stuart 97, 133, 134
1
 
Re:wild, Austin, USA
2
 
IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group, Toronto, Canada
3
 
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, CZO/Herpetologia, Belém, Brazil
5
 
Centro de Ornitologia y Biodiversidad (CORBIDI), Lima, Peru
9
 
Action Pour la Sauvegarde de l’Ecologie en Haïti (ACSEH), Les Cayes, Haiti
10
 
Environmental Protection In the Caribbean (EPIC), Maho, Sint Maarten
11
 
Museo de Vertebrados de la Universidad de Panamá, Ciudad de Panama, Panama
12
 
Centro Oriental de Ecosistemas y Biodiversidad (BIOECO), Museo de Historia Natural “Tomás Romay”, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
13
 
IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group, Sri Lanka, Gampola, Sri Lanka
16
 
IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group Bolivia, La Paz, Bolivia
19
 
HerpWatch Pilipinas, Manila, Philippines
22
 
SAVE THE FROGS!, Laguna Beach, USA
24
 
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, USA
25
 
Center for Environmental Studies, Sanata Dharma University (CESSDU), Yogyakarta, Indonesia
26
 
Pinelands Preservation Alliance, Southampton Township, USA
27
 
Centro de Conservación de Anfibios, Amaru Bioparque, Cuenca, Ecuador
28
 
Museo de Historia Natural, Escuela de Biologia, Universidad de San Carlos, Guatemala City, Guatemala
29
 
FUNDAECO, Guatemala City, Guatemala
33
 
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, La Paz, Bolivia
36
 
David Attenborough Building, IUCN, Cambridge, UK
38
 
The Natural History Museum, London, UK
39
 
Pacific Northwest Research Station, United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Corvallis, USA
41
 
Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad INABIO, Quito, Ecuador
50
 
Instituto de Investigación Biológica del Paraguay, Asunción, Paraguay
51
 
Fundación Naturaleza El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador
52
 
Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, Italy
53
 
Zoologische Staatssammlung München (ZSM-SNSB), Munich, Germany
54
 
Panthera, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
58
 
WCS-Colombia, Cali, Colombia
59
 
Biogeography and Spatial Ecology Research Group, Life Sciences Faculty, Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam, Tena, Ecuador
60
 
Herpetology Division, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Quito, Ecuador
61
 
Instituto Boitatá de Etnobiologia E Conservação da Fauna, Goiânia, Brazil
66
 
Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden, Hong Kong SAR, People’s Republic of China
68
 
Bhutan Ecological Society, Thimphu, Bhutan
69
 
Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia
75
 
Biolinx Environmental Research, Victoria, Canada
76
 
Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria, Canada
77
 
Flint, USA
80
 
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Cuba, La Habana, Cuba
83
 
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural “Jorge A. Ibarra”, Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala
85
 
David, Panama
86
 
Instituto de Ecorregiones Andinas (INECOA, UNJu—Conicet), San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina
88
 
Fundación para el Desarrollo de las Ciencias Físicas, Matemáticas y Naturales (FUDECI), Caracas, Venezuela
89
 
Unidad de Investigación, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INABIO), Quito, Ecuador
91
 
Museum für Naturkunde—Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin, Germany
94
 
Aaranyak, Guwahati, India
97
 
IUCN Species Survival Commission, Gland, Switzerland
100
 
Zoology Unit, Research and Education Section, Sabah Parks, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
101
 
Allwetterzoo, Münster, Germany
104
 
Department of Life Sciences, the Natural History Museum, London, UK
106
 
Proyecto Coqui, San Juan, Puerto Rico
109
 
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, República de Panamá
113
 
Chennai Snake Park, Chennai, India
117
 
Bichos.team, Bogotá, Colombia
118
 
Environmental Studies, St Lawrence University, Canton, USA
119
 
Prescott, Canada
120
 
IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group Nicaragua, Managua, Nicaragua
121
 
Grupo Jaragua, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
124
 
Herpetology Department, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, Australia
133
 
A Rocha International, London, UK
134
 
Synchronicity Earth, London, UK
Publication typeJournal Article
Publication date2023-10-04
scimago Q1
wos Q1
SJR18.288
CiteScore78.1
Impact factor48.5
ISSN00280836, 14764687
Multidisciplinary
Abstract

Systematic assessments of species extinction risk at regular intervals are necessary for informing conservation action1,2. Ongoing developments in taxonomy, threatening processes and research further underscore the need for reassessment3,4. Here we report the findings of the second Global Amphibian Assessment, evaluating 8,011 species for the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species. We find that amphibians are the most threatened vertebrate class (40.7% of species are globally threatened). The updated Red List Index shows that the status of amphibians is deteriorating globally, particularly for salamanders and in the Neotropics. Disease and habitat loss drove 91% of status deteriorations between 1980 and 2004. Ongoing and projected climate change effects are now of increasing concern, driving 39% of status deteriorations since 2004, followed by habitat loss (37%). Although signs of species recoveries incentivize immediate conservation action, scaled-up investment is urgently needed to reverse the current trends.

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@article{2023_Luedtke,
author = {Jennifer Luedtke and Janice Chanson and Kelsey D Neam and Louise Hobin and ADRIANO O. MACIEL and Alessandro Catenazzi and Amaël Borzée and Amir Hamidy and Anchalee Aowphol and JEAN ANDERSON and Ángel Sosa-Bartuano and ANSEL FONG G. and Anslem de Silva and Antoine Fouquet and ARIADNE ANGULO and Artem A. Kidov and Arturo Muñoz Saravia and ARVIN C. DIESMOS and Atsushi Tominaga and BIRAJ SHRESTHA and Brian Gratwicke and BURHAN TJATURADI and Carlos C. Martínez Rivera and Carlos R. Vásquez Almazán and Celsa Señaris and S. R. CHANDRAMOULI and Christine Strüssmann and Claudia Fabiola Cortez Fernández and C. AZAT and Conrad J. Hoskin and Craig Hilton-Taylor and Damion L. Whyte and David J. Gower and Deanna H Olson and Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia and Diego J. Santana and Elizah Nagombi and Elnaz Najafi-Majd and EVAN S.H. QUAH and FEDERICO BOLAÑOS and Feng Xie and Francisco Brusquetti and Francisco S. Álvarez and Franco Andreone and Frank Glaw and Franklin Enrique Castañeda and Fred Kraus and Gabriela Parra-Olea and Gerardo Chaves and GUIDO FABIAN MEDINA-RANGEL and others},
title = {Ongoing declines for the world’s amphibians in the face of emerging threats},
journal = {Nature},
year = {2023},
volume = {622},
publisher = {Springer Nature},
month = {oct},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06578-4},
number = {7982},
pages = {308--314},
doi = {10.1038/s41586-023-06578-4}
}
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Luedtke, Jennifer, et al. “Ongoing declines for the world’s amphibians in the face of emerging threats.” Nature, vol. 622, no. 7982, Oct. 2023, pp. 308-314. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06578-4.