Contents
Foreword...........................................................................................2 Acknowledgements...........................................................................3 Executive Summary..........................................................................4 Summary of Action Steps..................................................................6 Chapter 1, Designing a Network of Conservation Sites for Amphibians— Key Biodiversity Areas............................................12 D. Silvano, A. Angulo, A.C.O.Q. Carnaval and R. Pethiyagoda
Chapter 7, Captive Programs..........................................................36 J.R. Mendelson III, R. Gagliardo, F. Andreone, K.R. Buley, L. Coloma, G. Garcia, R. Gibson, R. Lacy, M.W. Lau, J. Murphy, R. Pethiyagoda, K. Pelican, B.S. Pukazhenthi, G. Rabb, J. Raffaelli, B. Weissgold, D. Wildt and Xie Feng Appendix A, Genome Resource Banking........................................38 B. S. Pukazhenthi, K. Pelican, D. Wildt Chapter 8, Reintroductions............................................................40 R. Griffiths, K. Buhlmann, J. McKay, and T. Tuberville
Chapter 2, Freshwater Resources and Associated Terrestrial Landscapes......................................................................................16 M. Lannoo, C. Funk, M. Gadd, T. Halliday and J. Mitchell
Chapter 9, The Continuing Need for Assessments: Making the Global Amphibian Assessment an Ongoing Process.......................43 S. Stuart
Chapter 3, Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss, and Amphibian Declines..........................................................................................19 A. Pounds, A.C.O.Q. Carnaval and S. Corn
Chapter 10, Systematics and Conservation.....................................45 G. Parra, R. Brown, J. Hanken, B. Hedges, R. Heyer, S. Kuzmin, E. Lavilla, S. Lötters, B. Pimenta, S. Richards, M.O. Rödel, R.O. de Sá and D. Wake
Chapter 4, Infectious Diseases........................................................21 P. Daszak, K. Lips, R. Alford, C. Carey, J.P. Collins, A. Cunningham, R. Harris and S. Ron Chapter 5, Over-harvesting............................................................26 A. I. Carpenter, H. Dublin, M. Lau, G. Syed, J. E. McKay and R. D. Moore Chapter 6, Evaluating the Role of Environmental . Contamination in Amphibian Population Declines.......................32 M. D. Boone, D. Cowman, C. Davidson, T. Hayes, W. Hopkins, R. Relyea, L. Schiesari, R. Semlitsch
Chapter 11, Bioresource Banking Efforts in Support of . Amphibian Conservation................................................................49 O.A. Ryder Chapter 12, References...................................................................51 Appendix 1, Declaration to the Amphibian Conservation . Summit...........................................................................................59 Appendix 2, Amphibian Conservation Summit..............................62