Clay Simpkins

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify management actions from across the world and from diverse disciplines that are applicable to minimizing loss of amphibian biodiversity under climate change, grouped under three thematic areas of intervention: installation of microclimate and microhabitat refuges; enhancement and restoration of breeding sites; and manipulation of hydroperiod or water levels at breeding sites.

TL;DR: This study demonstrates that tourism has significant potential to contribute to global frog conservation efforts by using a coarse measure but at the global scale.

TL;DR: The results show that the ecology of specialist and non-specialist tadpole species associated with ‘unique’ (e.g. wallum) waterbodies is complex and species specific, with specialist species likely dominating unique habitats.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a combination of response modeling techniques to estimate environmental limits for a threatened species using Litoria olongburensis (wallum sedgefrog), which has a biphasic lifecycle with larvae developing in naturally acidic wetlands of coastal sandy lowlands of subtropical eastern Australia.

TL;DR: The chytrid fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, has been implicated in amphibian declines in numerous amphibian populations around the world and it is imperative to evaluate if there is an influence of different swabbers (individual humans) on estimates of Bd prevalence.