They may be dying from a fungus enabled by global warming.
The researchers implicate global warming, as opposed to local variations in temperature or other conditions. Their conclusion is based on their finding that patterns of fungus outbreaks and extinctions in widely dispersed patches of habitat were synchronized in a way that could not be explained by chance.
Ribbit?
Posted by binky at January 17, 2006 08:35 AM | TrackBack | Posted to EcologyThat's good to know. But unless he owns a vast stretch of tropical rainforest, the harlequins are probably still in trouble. ;)
Posted by: binky at January 17, 2006 02:51 PM | PERMALINK