Amphibian Biology, Volume 11, Part 4 (eBook)

lt;p>Harold Heatwole is an ecologist and herpetologist. His first PhD (University of Michigan) dealt with habitat use by amphibians, but then he branched out and studied other taxa, mostly reptiles and amphibians, but also ants, tardigrades, and seabirds. He earned a second PhD in Botany with a dissertation on the dynamics of vegetation on coral cays on the Great Barrier Reef of Australia (University of Queensland). He completed his education with a PhD in Geography (James Cook University) and a DsC (University of New England, Australia). He had faculty appointments at the University of Puerto Rico, University of New England, and currently is Professor of Biology at North Carolina State University and Adjunct Professor of Zoology at the University of New England. He is editor in Chief of the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology. He is a Fellow of the Explorers Club.

John W. Wilkinson is a conservation biologist specializing in studying and monitoring amphibians and reptiles. He started working with herpetofauna whilst an undergraduate and now nobody will give him a proper job. For eight years he was International Coordinator of the Declining Amphibian Populations Task Force and is currently Science Program Manager for the charity Amphibian and Reptile Conservation. John's PhD thesis was on toad conservation - it just made him realize how much more there is to find out...

39 The amphibians of the Italian region: A review of conservation status - Franco Andreone

40 Amphibian conservation and declines in Malta - Patrick J. Schembri

41 Conservation and declines of amphibians in Croatia - Olga Jovanović and Dušan Jelić

42 Conservation and declines of amphibians in Slovenia - David Stanković, Martina Lužnik, and Katja Poboljšaj

43 Conservation and decline of European amphibians: The Republic of Serbia - Jelka Crnobrnja-Isailović and Momir Paunović

44 Amphibian declines and conservation in Montenegro - Ruža Ćirović

45 Status of amphibians in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Avdul Adrović

46 Conservation and protection status of amphibians in Macedonia - Bogoljub Sterijovski

47 Amphibians of Albania - Idriz Haxhiu

48 Declines and conservation of amphibians in Greece - Konstantinos Sotiropoulos and Petros Lymberakis

49 Amphibian conservation and decline in Romania - Dan Cogălniceanu and Laurenţiu Rozylowicz

50 Conservation and decline of amphibians in Hungary - Judit Vörös, István Kiss, and Miklós Puky

51 Conservation and declines of amphibians in Bulgaria - Nikolay Dimitrov Tzankov and Georgi Sashev Popgeorgiev

52 Amphibian conservation and decline in Turkey - Kurtuluş Olgun and Nazan Üzüm

53 Conservation of amphibians in Cyprus - Petros Lymberakis, Haris Nicolaou, and Konstantinos Sotiropoulos

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