Long-term trends toward earlier breeding of Japanese amphibians

Journal of Herpetology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 608-614

  Kusano, Tamotsu ^a   Inoue, Masafumi ^b  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO KAGAKU CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; HYNOBIUS; RANA ORNATIVENTRIS; RHACOPHORUS ARBOREUS;

EID: 58149097821     PISSN: 00221511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1670/08-002R1.1     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. ALFORD, R. A., AND S. J. RICHARDS. 1999. Global amphibian declines: a problem in applied ecology. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 30:133-165.
2. BEATTIE, R. C. 1985. The date of spawning in populations of the Common Frog (Rana temporaria) from different altitudes in northern England. Journal of Zoology (A) 205:137-154.
3. BEEBEE, T. J. C. 1995. Amphibian breeding and climate. Nature 374:219-220.
4. -. 2007. Thirty years of garden ponds. Herpetological Bulletin 99:23-28.
5. BLAUSTEIN, A. R., L. K. BELDEN, D. H. OLSON, D. M. GREEN, T. L. ROOT, AND J. M. KIESECKER. 2001. Amphibian breeding and climate change. Conservation Biology 15:1804-1809.
6. CAREY, C., AND M. A. ALEXANDER. 2003. Climate change and amphibian declines: is there a link? Diversity and Distributions., 9:111-121.
7. CHADWICK, E. A., F. M. SLATER, AND S. J. ORMEROD. 2006. Inter- and intraspecific differences in climatically mediated phenological change in coexisting Triturus species. Global Change Biology 12:1069-1078.
8. CRAWLEY, M. J. 2002. Statistical Computing: An Introduction to Data analysis using S-plus. John Wiley and Sons, West Sussex UK.
9. DUELLMAN, W. E., AND L. TRUEB. 1994. Biology of Amphibians. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD.
10. GIBBS, J. P., AND A. R. BREISCH. 2001. Climate warming and calling phenology of frogs near Ithaca, New York, 1990-1999. Conservation Biology 15:1175-1178.
11. HOULAHAN, J. E., C. S. FINDLAY, B. R. SCHMIDT, A. H. MEYER, AND S. L. KUZMIN. 2000. Quantitative evidence for global amphibian population declines. Nature 404:752-755.
12. JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY. 2007. Climatic Statistics. Accessed 4 Sept 2007. Available from http://www.data.jma.go.jp/obd/ stats/data/en/index. html.
13. JØRGENSEN, C. B. 1986. External and internal control of patterns of feeding, growth and gonadal function in a temperate zone anuran, the toad Bufo bufo. Journal of Zoology 210:211-241.
14. KUSANO, T. 1980. Breeding and egg survival of a population of a salamander, Hynobius nebulosus tokyoensis Tago. Researches on Population Ecology 21:181-196.
15. -. 1981. Growth and survival rate of the larvae of Hynobius nebulosus tokyoensis Tago (Amphibia, Hynobiidae). Researches on Population Ecology 23:360-378.
16. -. 1982. Postmetamorphic growth, survival, and age at first reproduction of the salamander, Hynobius nebulosus tokyoensis Tago, in relation to a consideration on the optimal timing of first reproduction. Researches on Population Ecology 24:329-344.
17. -. 1998. A radio-tracking study of post-breeding dispersal of the treefrog, Rhacophorus arboreus. Japanese Journal of Herpetology 17:98-106.
18. KUSANO, T., AND M. INOUE. 2006. Climate warming and timing of breeding of amphibians: a case of amphibian populations in the Tama district, Tokyo. Bulletin of the Herpetological Society of Japan 2006:8-14. [In Japanese.]
19. KUSANO, T., AND K. MIYASHITA. 1984. Dispersal of the salamander, Hynobius nebulosus tokyoensis. Journal of Herpetology 18:349-353.
20. KUSANO, T., A. SAKAI, AND S. HATANAKA. 2005. Natural egg mortality and clutch size of the Japanese Treefrog, Rhacophorus arboreus (Amphibia: Rhacophoridae). Current Herpetology 24:79-84.
21. -. 2006. Ecological functions of the foam nests of the Japanese Treefrog, Rhacophorus arboreus (Amphibia, Rhacophoridae). Herpetological Journal 16:163-169.
22. OVASKA, K. 1997. Vulnerability of amphibians in Canada to global warming and increased solar ultraviolet radiation. In D. M. Green (ed.), Amphibians in Decline: Canadian Studies of a Global Problem, pp. 206-225. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Saint Louis, MO.
23. PARMESAN, C. 2006. Ecological and evolutionary responses to recent climate change. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 37:637-669.
24. POUNDS, J. A., M. P. L. FOGDEN, AND J. H. CAMPBELL. 1999. Biological response to climate change on a tropical mountain. Nature 398:611-614.
25. POUNDS, J. A., M. R. BUSTAMANTE, L. A. COLOMA, J. A. CONSUEGRA, M. P. L. FOGDEN, P. N. FOSTER, E. LA MARCA, K. L. MASTERS, A. MERINO- VITERI, R. PUSCHENDORF, S. R. RON, G. A. SÁNCHEZ-AZOFEIFA, C. J. STILL, AND B. E. YOUNG. 2006. Widespread amphibian extinctions from epidemic disease driven by global warming. Nature 439:161-167.
26. READING, C. J. 1998. The effect of winter temperatures on the timing of breeding activity in the Common Toad Bufo bufo. Oecologia 117:469-475.
27. -. 2007. Linking global warming to amphibian declines through its effects on female body conditions and survivorship. Oecologia 151:125-131.
28. SAWANO, J. 1947. Normal plates of the development of Hynobius lichenatus. Gurosu Shuppan Sapporo Japan. [In Japanese.]
29. TRYJANOWSKI, P., AND T. SPARKS. 2001. Is the detection of the first arrival date of migrating birds influenced by population size? International Journal of Biometeorology 45:217-219.
30. TRYJANOWSKI, P., M. RYBACKI, AND T. SPARKS. 2003. Changes in the first spawning dates of Common Frogs and Common Toads in western Poland in 1978-2002. Annales Zoologica Fennici 40:459-464.
31. USUI, M., AND M. HAMASAKI. 1939. Normal plates of the development of Hynobius nigrescence. Zoological Magazine 51:195-206. [In Japanese.]