Currently, there are over 7 billion of us living on the planet and I tend to think that with a population of the magnitude – with no sign of slowing – our ability to affect lasting changes on our planet, both positive and negative, cannot be overstated.
Started in 1989, MAPS (Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivor-ship) is a program that provides demographic information to explain population trends.
Summary of Boreal Toad Project for Jesperson Award 2018 Emerging infectious diseases pose a significant threat to global biodiversity. Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (commonly known as the amphibian chytrid fungus), an emerging fungal pathogen primarily affecting amphibians, is of particular concern because it has caused severe population declines and several extinctions in amphibian populations worldwide. Our current …
