Amphibian Declines in Latin America: Workshops to Design a Monitoring Protocol and Database (Mexico, Panama, & Ecuador-October and/or November 1999)

拉丁美洲两栖动物数量减少：设计监测协议和数据库的研讨会（墨西哥、巴拿马、

• 批准号: 9975495
• 负责人: Bruce Young
• 金额: $ 4.3万
• 依托单位: Nature Conservancy
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-10-01 至 2000-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9975495&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Amphibian; Declines; Latin; America; Workshops

9975495Young, Lips & ReaserThe scientific and popular media have recently reported on alarming declines and disappearances of amphibians in the United States and around the world. Because many affected sites are in designated "protected areas", scientists fear that amphibians are being affected by climate change, emerging diseases, or pesticide drift. Latin America, where frog and toad diversity is especially high, has experienced dramatic amphibian population declines and extinctions. This project will fund three workshops to bring US and Latin American scientists together to define a strategy to address the problem. A major goal is to develop a standardized methodology for assessing the status of amphibians throughout Latin America. In addition, a database accessible via the World Wide Web will be created to make the monitoring results readily available to the world's scientists and interested lay people.The causes of amphibian population declines in both the US and Latin America are likely to be similar. Indeed, a fungal parasite first identified in Panamanian frogs has subsequently been discovered in frogs in the US. A backbone for monitoring activities will be some of the 61 protected areas in Latin America currently supported by The Nature Conservancy, an international land and water conservation organization, and the US Agency for International Development.

科学和大众媒体最近报道了美国和世界各地两栖动物的惊人减少和消失。由于许多受影响的地点都位于指定的“保护区”内，科学家担心两栖动物正在受到气候变化、新出现的疾病或农药漂移的影响。拉丁美洲的青蛙和蟾蜍多样性特别高，但两栖动物数量急剧下降和灭绝。该项目将资助三个研讨会，将美国和拉丁美洲的科学家聚集在一起，确定解决这一问题的战略。一个主要目标是制定一个标准化的方法来评估整个拉丁美洲两栖动物的状况。此外，还将建立一个可通过万维网访问的数据库，以便世界科学家和感兴趣的非专业人士随时获得监测结果。美国和拉丁美洲两栖动物数量下降的原因可能是相似的。事实上，首先在巴拿马青蛙中发现的真菌寄生虫随后在美国的青蛙中发现。监测活动的支柱将是拉丁美洲目前由国际水土保持组织大自然保护协会和美国国际开发署支持的61个保护区中的一些。