Talk:Decline in amphibian populations

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Contents 1 Article Title 2 Article structure 2.1 Actual status of anphibian populations 2.2 Climate Change? 3 Phrasing 4 spanish version 5 Expand Chemical Contaminants please

[edit] Article Title

Shouldn't this article be named "Decline in Amphibian Populations"? It is not specifically a frog issue, as is pointed out in the first sentence of the article.Pstevendactylus 02:59, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

It seems that is where the article is going. Although it should use proper capitalisation convention, and be named: "Decline in amphibian populations". --liquidGhoul 13:30, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article structure

I'm proposing the following:

• Background
• Natural population fluctuations or problematic declines?
• Potential causes of declines
  • Habitat loss
  • Habitat fragmentation
  • Introduced species
  • UV-B radiation
  • Chemical contaminants or pollutants
  • Disease
    • Chytridiomycosis
    • Ranavirus
    • Red-legged disease
  • Climate change
  • Over-exploitation
• Conservation strategies
  • Habitat protection
  • Captive breeding
• Notes and references
• External links

[edit] Actual status of anphibian populations

• I think that it would be of interest to add a topic about this issue to the propoused article structure. Lopezmts 18:47, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Climate Change?

Umm, the content of the section on climate change is totally misplaced. Rainforest destruction isn't neccesarily caused by climate change (and the article doesn't even state this relationship), and ozone depletion isn't directly related to it either (although climate change may affect the exposure to UV-B for amphibians). I'll see what I can do to put some relevent material in. Uncle-P 20:48, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Phrasing

Try to avoid statements like: "A recent international convention". If you are going to talk about a date, state the date and don't use words like recent. Wikipedia could be running for 100 years, and if someone comes to this article in 100 years, and it still says "recent", then the information would be innacurate. It is also a relative term, and no-one known when the convention took place. Was it last year, or ten years ago? --liquidGhoul 13:34, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] spanish version

Hello, I found this article very interesting and I have created an spanish translation for the spanish wikipedia. Congratulations to all who have worked in this fine article. Lopezmts 15:33, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Expand Chemical Contaminants please

I hope the feminization of frogs is expounded, with the cause being chemical pollutants in water act like or mimic estrogen with a 95-100% feminization of groups exposed to these chemical contaminants in an experiment. Berserkerz Crit 15:02, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

It sounds like you know something about this issue. Do you want to expand the article to include this info (using good references of course)? Thanks. --liquidGhoul 05:19, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Nah I only read it on Yahoo! News. I've added it already and please see fit to copyedit my edit (I paraphrased the article). I've also added the reference. See that the most important details are added. Poor frogs. =( Berserkerz Crit 09:05, 1 March 2007 (UTC)