Amphibian Decline in the Lamar Valley

Posted by Jeffrey St. Clair on January 13th, 2009 | Link

The world’s amphibians are disappearing. It has been estimated that amphibians are going extinct at 211 times the normal background rate. The recent study “Climatic change and wetland desiccation cause amphibian decline in Yellowstone National Park” by Sarah K. McMenamin, Elizabeth A. Hadly, and Christopher K. Wright, suggests that Yellowstone is not immune from this world wide phenomenon.