An outstanding introduction to the amphibian extinction crisis is provided in Chapter 1 of Elizabeth Kolbert’s book The Sixth Extinction. This book is a must read for anyone interested in the extinction crisis. A complete overview of the amphibian extinction crisis is provided in the book Extinction in Our Times: Global Amphibian Decline by J.P. Collins and M.L. Crump.
The following publications contain relevant information on amphibians and were used as sources for the information provided for the Amphibian Refuge website.
- Ongoing Declines for the World’s Amphibians in the Face of Emerging Threats in Nature, Volume 622, 12 October 2023, pp. 308-313.
- Amphibian Decline or Extinction? Current Declines Dwarf Background Extinction Rate, in Journal of Herpetology, Volume 41, Number 3, pp. 483-491, by M.L. McCallum. (2007)
- Extinction in Our Times: Global Amphibian Decline by J.P. Collins, and M.L. Crump. Oxford University Press, New York, NY. (2009)
- Herpetology, 4th Edition, by F.H. Pough, R.M. Andrews, M.L. Crump, A.H. Savitzky, K.D Wells, and M.C. Brandley. Sinauer Associates, Inc., Sunderland, MA (2016)
- North American Amphibians, Distribution and Diversity, by D.M. Green, L.A. Weir, G.S. Casper, and M.J. Landco. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA. (2013)
- Patterns of Distribution of Amphibians: a Global Perspective, by W.E. Dulleman. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD (1999)
- Peterson Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America, by R. Powell, R. Connant, and J.T. Collins. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, New York, NY. (2016)
- Peterson Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, by R.C. Stebbins and S. M. McGinnis. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, New York, NY. (2018)
- The Book of Frogs, a Life-size Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World, by T. Halliday. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. (2016)
- The Sixth Extinction, an Unnatural History, by E. Kolbert. New York, NY: Bloomsbury, New York, NY. (2014)
- State of the World’s Amphibians, in Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 40: 91-119, by A. Catenazzi (2015)