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FrogLog CONTENTS 3 Editorial NEWS FROM THE ASG 4 Your ASG questions answered 8 Haiti: An unlikely haven for amphibians Ranitomeya variabilis. Photo: J.L. Brown REGIONAL UPDATE 10 News from Regional Groups. 12 Amphibian Conservation Needs Assessment Workshop for the Caribbean 13 IUCN Red List Assessment workshop for Amphibians of Jamaica and Hispaniola 14 New Hope for Dominican Frogs: PROYECTO RANA RD. 16 Puerto Rico: An island rich in amphibians subject to many threats. 17 A new guide to the identification of Cuban frogs and toads 19 Protecting the Cuban Long Nosed Toad 19 Results of the Cuban amphibians Red List Assessment 20 Anthropogenic Noise: Yet Another Fight for Frogs? 22 Guatemalan Salamander Diversity 26 Climbing for Chytrid: An Aerial Pursuit for Answers in Honduras 28 Searching for lost frogs of the Craugastor rugulosus group: Understanding their dissapearence and assesing their current population status. 29 Forensic Taxonomy and the “new fossils” in Amphibian Biology 30 Scaling a Global Plan into National Strategies for Amphibian Conservation GLOBAL NEWS 32 A call to amphibian biologists to share innovative ideas to minimize loss of species under climate change 33 Complete management scheme of populations: the usage of physiological indicators to assess the impact of habitat availability and fragmentation. 36 Taruga, a new tree-frog genus endemic to Sri Lanka 37 The Establishment of a Global Ranavirus Reporting System 38 The smell of success: choice of larval rearing sites by means of chemical cues in a Peruvian poison frog 40 Conserving amphibian communities in urban landscapes ARMI Awards 42 | Recent Publications 44 | Meetings 59 Internships & Jobs 59 | Funding Opportunities 62 | Author Instructions 65 2 | FrogLog Vol. 96 | May 2011
Editorial Welcome to FrogLog volume 96, our first edition with a regional focus. With over 600 members globally the IUCN/ SSC Amphibian Specialist Group, through its members and partners, is supporting a vast array of amphibian conservation and research activities. In an effort to help publicize this work we will be focusing on one of our six geographical regions each edition (see page 7 for details on geographic regions). In this edition we will be hearing from ASG members working in North and Central America and the Caribbean and from researchers who might not be directly involved with the ASG but are contributing to our mission. North and Central America and the Caribbean are an important region for amphibian research and conservation. The largest numbers of threatened species occur in Latin America; Mexico contains the second highest number of threatened amphibian species in the world, and the highest levels of threat are in the Caribbean, where more than 80% of amphibians are threatened or extinct in the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and Jamaica, and an alarming 92% in Haiti. I have never come across so many critically endangered species as I did on a recent expedition to Haiti, where reduced populations cling to survival in small pockets of dwindling forest on remote mountain peaks. It speaks to the urgency of the situation that amphibians are facing and, whether it is habitat loss, disease, pollution, climate change or a combination of threats working together, there has never been a greater sense of urgency in tackling one of the biggest challenges to biodiversity conservation of our time. If we are to stem the tide of amphibian declines and extinctions we must truly work together by sharing our findings, our successes and also our failures – only in this way will we be able to refine our strategies to meet such a daunting challenge. But people are indeed rising to the challenge. It is inspiring to see the level of activity in amphibian research and conservation in this region, and I was absolutely thrilled to see such an overwhelming response to this edition of FrogLog, with over 40 contributors. It is an outstanding start to the new regional focus, and we look forward to taking a closer look at each region over the coming months and sharing your important work so that we can continue our mission of safeguarding the world’s amphibians. Robin Moore ASG Program Officer FrogLog ASG & EDITORIAL COMMITTEE James P. Collins ASG Co-Chair Claude Gascon ASG Co-Chair Robin D. Moore ASG Program Officer James P. Lewis ASG Program Coordinator Editorial Office Conservation International 2011 Crystal Drive, Suite 500, Arlington, VA 22202 USA Please consider the enviornment before printing this publication. Reduse, reuse, recycle. FrogLog Vol. 96 | May 2011 | 3
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