Post by saskatchewanexotic on Mar 19, 2010 19:48:07 GMT -5
ScienceDaily (Mar. 2, 2010) — Scientists broadly agree that global warming may threaten the survival of many plant and animal species; but global warming did not kill the Monteverde golden toad, an often cited example of climate-triggered extinction, says a new study. The toad vanished from Costa Rica's Pacific coastal-mountain cloud forest in the late 1980s, the apparent victim of a pathogen outbreak that has wiped out dozens of other amphibians in the Americas.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100301151925.htm
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100301151925.htm