Ongoing declines for the world’s amphibians in the face of emerging threats

Jennifer A. Luedtke and Janice Chanson and Kelsey Neam and Louise Hobin and Adriano O. Maciel and Alessandro Catenazzi and Amaël Borzée and Amir Hamidy and Anchalee Aowphol and Anderson Jean and Ángel Sosa-Bartuano and Ansel Fong G. and Anslem de Silva and Antoine Fouquet and Ariadne Angulo and Artem A. Kidov and Arturo Muñoz Saravia and Arvin C. Diesmos and Atsushi Tominaga and Biraj Shrestha and Brian Gratwicke and Burhan Tjaturadi and Carlos C. Martínez Rivera and Carlos R. Vásquez Almazán and Celsa Señaris and Chandramouli S. R. and Christine Strüssmann and Claudia Fabiola Cortez Fernández and Claudio Azat and Conrad J. Hoskin and Craig Hilton-Taylor and Damion L. Whyte and David J. Gower and Deanna H. Olson and Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia and Diego José Santana and Elizah Nagombi and Elnaz Najafi-Majd and Quah, Evan Seng Huat and Federico Bolaños and Feng Xie and Francisco Brusquetti and Francisco S. Álvarez and Franco Andreone and Frank Glaw and Franklin Enrique Castañeda and Fred Kraus and Gabriela Parra-Olea and Gerardo Chaves and Guido F. Medina-Rangel and Gustavo González-Durán and H. Mauricio Ortega-Andrade and Iberê F. Machado and Indraneil Das and Iuri Ribeiro Dias and J. Nicolas Urbina-Cardona and Jelka Crnobrnja-Isailović and Jian-Huan Yang and Jiang Jianping and Jigme Tshelthrim Wangyal and Jodi J. L. Rowley and John Measey and Karthikeyan Vasudevan and Kin Onn Chan and Kotambylu Vasudeva Gururaja and Kristiina Ovaska and Lauren C. Warr and Luis Canseco-Márquez and Luís Felipe Toledo and Luis M. Díaz and M. Monirul H. Khan and Madhava Meegaskumbura and Manuel E. Acevedo and Marcelo Felgueiras Napoli and Marcos A. Ponce and Marcos Vaira and Margarita Lampo and Mario H. Yánez-Muñoz and Mark D. Scherz and Mark-Oliver Rödel and Masafumi Matsui and Maxon Fildor and Mirza D. Kusrini and Mohammad Firoz Ahmed and Muhammad Rais and N’Goran G. Kouamé and Nieves García and Nono Legrand Gonwouo and Patricia A. Burrowes and Paul Y. Imbun and Philipp Wagner and Philippe J. R. Kok and Rafael L. Joglar and Renoir J. Auguste and Reuber Albuquerque Brandão and Rudolf von May and S. Blair Hedges and S. D. Biju and S. R. Ganesh and Sally Wren and Sandeep Das and Sandra V. Flechas and Sara L. Ashpole and Silvia J. Robleto-Hernández and Simon P. Loader and Sixto J. Incháustegui and Sonali Garg and Somphouthone Phimmachak and Stephen J. Richards and Tahar Slimani and Tamara Osborne-Nikatini and Tatianne P. F. Abreu-Jardim and Thais H. Condez and Thiago R. De Carvalho and Timothy P. Cutajar and Todd W. Pierson and Truong Q. Nguyen and Uğur Kaya and Zhiyong Yuan and Barney Long and Penny Langhammer and Simon N. Stuart (2023) Ongoing declines for the world’s amphibians in the face of emerging threats. Nature, 622. pp. 308-314. ISSN 0028-0836

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Abstract

Systematic assessments of species extinction risk at regular intervals are necessary for informing conservation action1,2. Ongoing developments in taxonomy, threatening processes and research further underscore the need for reassessment3,4. Here we report the findings of the second Global Amphibian Assessment, evaluating 8,011 species for the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species. We find that amphibians are the most threatened vertebrate class (40.7% of species are globally threatened). The updated Red List Index shows that the status of amphibians is deteriorating globally, particularly for salamanders and in the Neotropics. Disease and habitat loss drove 91% of status deteriorations between 1980 and 2004. Ongoing and projected climate change effects are now of increasing concern, driving 39% of status deteriorations since 2004, followed by habitat loss (37%). Although signs of species recoveries incentivize immediate conservation action, scaled-up investment is urgently needed to reverse the current trends.

Item Type:	Article
Keyword:	Amphibians, Systematic assessments, The International Union for Conservation of Nature
Subjects:	Q Science > QH Natural history > QH1-278.5 Natural history (General) > QH1-(199.5) General Including nature conservation, geographical distribution Q Science > QL Zoology > QL1-991 Zoology > QL605-739.8 Chordates. Vertebrates > QL640-669.3 Reptiles and amphibians
Department:	INSTITUTE > Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation
Depositing User:	SITI AZIZAH BINTI IDRIS -
Date Deposited:	09 Jul 2025 16:28
Last Modified:	09 Jul 2025 16:28
URI:	https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/44404

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