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、

基本信息

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

项目摘要

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.

9975495young，Lips＆Reashthe Scientific and Pocultific Media最近报道了美国和世界各地两栖动物的衰落和失踪。由于许多受影响的站点都在指定的“保护区”中，因此科学家担心两栖动物会受到气候变化，新兴疾病或农药漂移的影响。青蛙和蟾蜍多样性特别高的拉丁美洲经历了两栖动物的人口下降和灭绝。该项目将资助三个研讨会，将我们和拉丁美洲科学家聚集在一起，以定义解决该问题的战略。一个主要目标是开发一种标准化方法来评估整个拉丁美洲的两栖动物的状况。此外，将创建可通过万维网访问的数据库，以使监视结果易于获得世界科学家和感兴趣的外行人。两栖动物人口的原因在美国和拉丁美洲都可能相似。确实，随后在美国的青蛙中发现了一种在巴拿马青蛙中首次发现的真菌寄生虫。用于监测活动的骨干将是拉丁美洲的61个受保护区中的一些，该地区目前得到了国际土地和节水组织的自然保护区和美国国际发展机构的支持。