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"Having pulled themselves from the water 360 million years ago, amphibians are
our ancient forebears, the first vertebrates to inhabit land.
Now, this diverse group of animals faces existential threats from climate
change, habitat destruction, and disease. Two Harvard-affiliated scientists
from India are drawing on decades of study — and an enduring love for the
natural world — to sound a call to action to protect amphibians, and in
particular, frogs.
Sathyabhama Das Biju, the Hrdy Fellow at Harvard Radcliffe Institute and a
professor at the University of Delhi, and his former student Sonali Garg, now a
biodiversity postdoctoral fellow at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology,
are co-authors of a sobering new study in
Nature, featured on the journal’s
print cover, that assesses the global status of amphibians. It is a follow-up
to a 2004 study about amphibian declines."
Via Tree Of Life and Muse.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
