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Corroboree frog (Pseudophryne corroboree), Australia / Photo by Harold Cogger
Corroboree frog (Pseudophryne corroboree), Australia / Photo by Harold Cogger
Donors

We first wish to recognize and thank the many donors whose financial support has made the Global Amphibian Assessment possible. In particular, we thank the Moore Family Foundation and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, whose extraordinary generosity through their gifts to Conservation International provided the core financial support for the Global Amphibian Assessment.

Major support to Conservation International for its work on the Global Amphibian Assessment (GAA) also came from the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund, the Disney Foundation, and George Meyer.

Major support to IUCN for its work on the GAA was provided by the MAVA Foundation, the U.S. Department of State, and Conservation International.

Major support to NatureServe for its work on the GAA was provided by BP, Ben and Ruth Hammett, the Regina Bauer Frankenberg Foundation for Animal Welfare, and the National Science Foundation (via grants DEB-0130273 and INT-0322375)*.

Additional support for the GAA was received from the Chicago Zoological Society, the Columbus Zoo, the Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden, the Society for Wildlife and Nature, the Taipei Zoological Foundation, and WWF Australia.

*Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Conservation Partners

Darrel Frost of the American Museum of Natural History provided extensive assistance on taxonomic and nomenclatural issues, without which it would have been much more difficult to implement the GAA. David Wake of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California at Berkeley gave us privileged access to the AmphibiaWeb database. We are most grateful to both of these people for their unfailing support.

We received assistance and advice in ways too numerous to mention from the IUCN/SSC Declining Amphibian Populations Task Force, in particular from Tim Halliday, Jim Collins, Jim Hanken, and John Wilkinson.

The following people provided local logistical support for the GAA workshops: Jean-Marc Hero (Australia), Zhong Shengxian (China), Barasa Johnson (Kenya), Sanjay Molur and Sally Walker (India), Rosa Mary Saengsanthitham (Thailand), Enrique Lahmann (Costa Rica), Sabrina Cowan and Allen Allison (Hawaii), Adriano Paglia, Jose Maria Cardoso da Silva and Luis Paulo de Souza Pinto (Brazil), Paul and Sara Salaman and José Vicente Rodriguez (Ecuador), Doreen Zivkovic (Switzerland), Esteban Lavilla (Argentina), Juan Carlos Ortiz (Chile), David Gower and Mark Wilkinson (UK) and Sixto Inchaustegui (Dominican Republic). We also thank Sanjay Molur, Bob Inger, Michael Wei Neng Lau, Arvin Diesmos, Matt Foster, Mike Hoffmann, Penny Langhammer and Don Church who assisted in facilitating working groups during GAA workshops.

Gustavo da Fonseca, Claude Gascon, Russell Mittermeier, Tom Brooks, Larry Master and Georgina Mace provided guidance and encouragement throughout the project, and we wish to express a special debt of gratitude to them. We are particularly thankful to Ana Rodrigues, Resit Akcakaya, Georgina Mace, Stuart Butchart and Tom Lacher for their advice on statistical analysis. Rob Waller, Debra Fischman, Sonia Krogh, Vineet Katariya and Mark Denil provided extensive, high-quality GIS support. Xie Feng provided invaluable assistance in many ways, and in particular by helping us with the Chinese data, and giving us access to scientific literature written in Chinese. Claude Gascon and Jorgen Thomsen in particular assisted us with fundraising. Laara Manler, Caryn Simmons and Andrew Mitchell gave us the logistical and administrative support that we needed.

The majority of the distribution maps used for U.S. species were adapted from distribution data and maps assembled at Ball State University by Priya Nanjappa, M.S., Laura M. Blackburn, M.S. and Michael J. Lannoo, Ph.D. Development of the United States Amphibian Atlas Database was supported in part by grants and/or matching funds from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and Disney Wildlife Conservation Fund.

The GAA website was developed by NatureServe under the guidance of Leslie Honey. Felicia Carr, Jason McNees, Karen Monroe, Larry Prikockis, and Ekourba Yeboah comprised the web development team. Bruce Stein and Rob Riordan edited the website text. The home page graphic design is by Vervos.

Contributing Scientists

The GAA was entirely dependent on the more than 500 herpetologists who generously gave of their time and knowledge. The enthusiasm and commitment of these people has enabled us to generate a comprehensive global picture of amphibian status and trends for the first time. We record our thanks to the following people, asking for forgiveness from anyone whose name is inadvertently omitted or misspelled:

A. Vivek Gour-Broome

Gunther Köhler

Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani

Abraham Mijares-Urrutia

Gustavo Cruz

Natalia B. Ananjeva

Abyerami Balasubramanian

Güven Eken

Néstor G. Basso

Adolfo Amezquita

Hal Cogger

Nguyen Quang Truong

Agnieszka Ogrodowczyk

Harold Cogger

Nick Arnold

Ahmadm Disi

Harry Hines

Nikolai Orlov

Alain Dubois

Hartwell Welsh

Nimal Dharmapriya Rathnayake

Alan Channing

Helen Díaz-Páez

Noami Doak

Alan Pounds

Hellen Kurniati

Norman Scott

Alberto Cadena

Hendrik Muller

Norsham Suhaina Yaakob

Alberto R. Estrada

Herman Nuñez

Oommen V. Oommen

Alberto Veloso

Hinrich Kaiser

Oscar Flores

Aldrin Mallari

Ho Thu Cuc

Oswaldo Luiz Peixoto

Alex Kupfer

Ignacio J. De la Riva

Pablo Menendez

Alfonso Miranda Leiva

Indraneil Das

Patricia Narvaes

Alfredo Salvador

Iñigo Martínez-Solano

Paul Chippindale

Allen Allison

Irina Maslova

Paul Edgar

Alonso Quevedo Gil

Irwin García

Paul Horner

Alvin Braswell

Ishmail H. Ugurtas

Paul Imbun Yambun

Ana Almendariz

Ismael E. di Tada

Paul Moler

Ana Carolina Queiroz Carnaval

István Kiss

Paul Walker

Ana Maria Paulino Telles de Carvalho e Silva

J. W. (Pim) Arntzen

Paula Cabral Eterovick

Anand Padhye

Jaime Bertoluci

Paulo Christiano de Anchietta Garcia

Andrea Herman

Jaime Bosch

Pedro Beja

Andres Acosta

James Harrison

Per Nyström

Andres Merino-Viteri

James Menzies

Perry Ong

Andrew Gardner

James Rorabaugh

Peter Beerli

Angel Alcala

James Vonesh

Peter Brown

Anna Wong

Jan Meerman

Peter Paul Van Dijk

Annamaria Nistri

Jarujin Nabhitabata

Peter Robertson

Annemarie Ohler

Javier Icochea Monteza

Peter Vogel

Anslem De Silva

Jay Savage

Phil Bishop

Antonio Muñoz Alonso

Jean Lescure

Philippe Gaucher

Antonio W. Salas

Jean-Louis Amiet

Pradeep Kumara

Argelia Rodríguez

Jean-Luc Perret

Pranabes Sanyal

Ariadne Angulo

Jean-Marc Hero

Pranjalendu Ray

Ariel Rodríguez Gómez

Jeet Sukumaran

Querube Fuenmayor

Arne Schiotz

Jef Jaeger

Rafael Joglar

Aroshana Weerasinghe

Jenny Daltry

Rafael Lajmanovich

Arvin C. Diesmos

Jerry Hardy

Rafe Brown

Avital Gasith

Jesus H. Cordova Santa Gadea

Rainer Guenther

Axel Kwet

Jesus Manzanilla

Rainer Schulte

Baldwin Gutierrez

Jiang Jianping

Rajehdra Vyas

Beatrice Ibéné

Jigme Palden

Ramón Formas

Ben D. Bell

Joan Mayol Serra

Randy Jennings

Benedetto Lanza

John Clarke

Randy McCranie

Benedikt Schmidt

John E. Cadle

Ranjit Daniels

Bexel Ayyasamy Daniel

John Fa

Raoul Bain

Blair Hedges

John Jensen

Raymond Brereton

Boris Blotto

John Lynch

Renato Neves Feio

Boris Tuniyev

John Measey

Renaud Boistel

Bosco Chan

John Palis

Richard Griffiths

Brad Shaffer

John Poynton

Richard Retallick

Brandon Anthony

John Wilkinson

Richard Siegel

Brian Kubicki

Jon Loman

Richard Thomas

Bruce Bury

Jorge A. Cespedez

Richard Tinsley

Bruce Waldman

Jorge Luis Martinez Ruiz

Richard Zweifel

Bruce Young

Jörn Köhler

Riyad A. Sadek

Bruno Pimenta

Jose Hernández

Rob Grasso

Bryan Stuart

Jose Langone

Robert Drewes

Byron Wilson

José Nuñez

Robert Herrington

Carlos Alberto Gonçalves da Cruz

José P. Pombal Jr.

Robert Inger

Carlos Davidson

José Vicente Rueda Almonacid

Robert Jehle

Carlos Frederico D. da Rocha

Joseph Mitchell

Robert P. Reynolds

Carmen A. Ubeda

Josiah Townsend

Robert Powell

Celio Haddad

Juan Carlos Ortiz

Robert Puschendorf

Celsa Senaris

Juan Elias Garcia-Perez

Robert Schabetsberger

César Aguilar Puntriano

Juan Formas

Robert Stuebing

César Jaramillo

Juan Manuel Renjifo

Roberta Lecis

Channa Bambaradeniya

Judit Vörös

Roberto Ibanez

Charles Msuya

Julian Faivovich

Rogelio Cedeño Vázquez

Charles Painter

Julian Harrison

Rogério Pereira Bastos

Chelmala Srinivasulu

Julian Lee

Rohan Pethiyagoda

Chou Wenhao

Justin Gerlach

Roman Khalikov

Christian Marty

Kaniskha Ukuwwela

Ronald A. Nussbaum

Christopher Austin

Karen Lips

Ronald Crombie

Christopher Beachy

Karl-Heinz Jungfer

Ronald Heyer

Christopher J. Raxworthy

Karthikeyan Vasudevan

Ross Alford

Christopher Magin

Kartik Shanker

Ross D. MacCulloch

Christopher Pearl

Katie Hampson

Roy Swain

Christopher Phillips

Keith McDonald

Roy W. McDiarmid

Clare Morrison

Kelly Irwin

Rubén Albornoz

Claude Gascon

Kelum Manamendra-Arachchi

Ruth Adriana Maldonado-Silva

Claude Miaud

Ken Aplin

Ruth Amanda Estupinan

Claudia Azevedo-Ramos

Kenneth Dodd

S. Bhupathy

Claudia Cortez Fernandez

Kim Howell

S. P. Vijayakumar

Conrad Hoskin

Kristiina Ovaska

S.D. Biju

Cristina Arzabe

Kumthorn Thirakhupt

S.R.M Swarnapali Samaradiwaka

Cynthia Dolino

Kurtulus Olgun

Sabitry Choudhury Bordoloi

Dale Jackson

Larry David Wilson

Saibal Sengupta

Dale Roberts

Leong Tzi Ming

Sanjay Molur

Dan Cogalniceanu

Leslie Minter

Sanjay Molur

Daniel R. Neira Herrera

Letty Afuang

Santiago Ron

Dante Pavan

Li Cheng

Sarah May

David Beamer

Li Pipeng

Sarig Gafny

David Bickford

Li Shengquan

Sean Blomquist

David Bradford

Liang Gang

Senarathge Weerawardhena

David Cannatella

Lic. José A. Langone

Sergio Potsch de Carvalho e Silva

David Donaire-Barroso

Lily Rodriguez

Sergius Kuzmin

David Gower

Linda LaClaire

Shi Haitao

David Hunter

Liz Dovey

Simon Loader

David Moyer

Liza Paguntalan

Sixto Inchaustegui

David Newell

Lovemore C.J. Mazibuko

Sohrab MD Sarkar Uddin

David Price

Lu Shunqing

Somsak Panha

David Tarkhnishvili

Luciana Barreto Nascimento

Souad Hraoui- Bloquet

David Wake

Lucy Aquino

Srinivasulu Chelmala

Debjani Roy

Lue Kuangyang

Stefan Lötters

Debora Silvano

Luis Canseco

Steffen Reichle

Deepthi Wickramasinghe

Luis Coloma

Stephen Richards

Denis Vallan

Luis M. Diaz

Stephen Richter

Denise de C. Rossa-Feres

Luke Shoo

Steve C. Anderson

Derek Brown

M.S. Ravichandran

Steven Morey

Dick Watling

Mae Leonida Diesmos

Steven Swan

Diego Almeida

Magno V. Segalla

Suleima Santiago

Diego Baldo

Maklarin Lakim

Surya Adoor

Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia

Malcolm Largen

Susan Koenig

Dilip Bhagwanrao Sawarkar

Mandy Tocher

Sushil Dutta

Diva Ma. Borges-Nojosa

Manfred Beier

Sylvana Mass

Djoko Iskandar

Manuel Acevedo

Tahar Slimani

Dolores Huacaz

Manuel Morales

Tanya Chanard

Don Church

Marcelino Hernandez

Taran Grant

Donald Shepard

Marga Born

Tassanee Eamkamon

Dondi Ubaldo

Margaret Considine

Tatjana Dujsebayeva

Dwight Lawson

Maria Cristina Ardila-Robayo

Ted Kahn

Ed Meyer

Maria Isabel Herrera

Tej Kumar Shrestha

Edgar Lehr

Maria Ogielska

Terry Schwaner

Edif. Newton Plaza

Mariela Osorno

Theodore Papenfuss

Eduardo Toral

Marinus S. Hoogmoed

Thierry Fretey

El Hassan El Mouden

Mario Garcia Paris

Thomas Uzzell

Eldad Elron

Mario Yánez- Muñoz

Tibor Kovács

Eliza Maria Xavier Freire

Marisol Pedregosa

Tim Davenport

Elizabeth Scott

Marius Burger

Tim Halliday

Emilio Balletto

Mark Bailey

Tom Mann

Engin Gem

Mark Wilkinson

Travis Ryan

Enrique La Marca

Mark-Oliver Roedel

Trent Garner

Erik N. Smith

Martha Crump

Trevor Beebee

Erik R. Wild

Martha Patricia Ramirez P.

Tuba Kiliç

Erin Muths

Martin Bustamante

Ulisses Caramaschi

Ernesto Fernández-Badillo

Martin Pickersgill

Ulisses Galatti

Ernesto Recuero Gil

Marvalee Wake

Ulrich Joger

Esteban O. Lavilla

Mary Gartshore

Ulrich Sinsch

Federico Bolaños

Masafumi Matsui

Uriel Barrantes

Fei Liang

Mathieu Denoel

V.A. Prasanna Samarawickrama

Fernando Castro

Matthew Parris

Vance Vredenburg

Fernando Nogales S

Mattias Stoeck

Vanessa Verdade

Flora Acuña Juncá

Maureen A. Donnelly

Varad Giri

Franco Andreone

Max Sparreboom

Víctor R. Morales

Frank Glaw

MD. Kamrul Hasan Dolon

Victorino Molina

Frank Lemckert

Meren Ao

Vidana Arachchilage Samarawickrama

Frank Solís

Michael Adams

Vladimir Ischenko

Franklin Casteñeda

Michael Cunningham

Wang Xiuling

Fred Kraus

Michael Mahony

Wang Yuezhao

Fred Parker

Michael Sredl

Wichase Khonsue

Gabriel Skuk

Michael Wei Neng Lau

Wieslaw Babik

Gabriela Parra

Michel Breuil

Wilfredo Arizabal

Gad Degani

Michele Menegon

Will Osborne

Gajanan Buddhe

Miguel Lizana Avia

William E. Duellman

Gary Fellers

Miguel Tejedo

Wilmar Bolivar

Genevieve Gee

Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues

Wu Guanfu

Geng Baorong

Miguel Vences

Xie Feng

Geoffrey A. Hammerson

Miklós Puky

Yang Datong

George Zug

Milan Vogrin

Ye Changyuan

Georgina Santos Barrera

Mills Tandy

Yehudah. L. Werner

Gerardo Chavez

Mohammad Ali Reza Khan

Yodchaiy Chuaynkern

Gilda Andrade

Mohammed Firoz Ahmed

Yolanda Matamorros

Gláucia Moreira Drummond

Mohini Mohan Borah

Yoshio Kaneko

Gopalakrishna Bhatta

Monique Van Sluys

Yuan Zhigang

Graeme Gillespie

Muhammad Sharif Khan

Zhao Ermi

Gu Hui-qing

Mumpuni

Zhao Wenge

Guarino R. Colli

Murray Littlejohn

Zheng Zhonghua

Guinevere Wogan

Naomi Doak

 

 

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