Company:AmphibiaWeb
| Type | Synthesizing and sharing information about amphibians to enable research, education, and conservation |
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| Industry | Herpetology |
| Founded | 2000, California , United States |
| Website | www.amphibiaweb.org |
AmphibiaWeb is an American non-profit website that provides information about amphibians. It is run by a group of universities working with the California Academy of Sciences: San Francisco State University, the University of California at Berkeley, University of Florida at Gainesville, and University of Texas at Austin.
AmphibiaWeb's goal is to provide a single page for every species of amphibian in the world so research scientists, citizen scientists and conservationists can collaborate.[1] It added its 7000th animal in 2012, a glass frog from Peru.[2][3] As of 2022, it hosted more than 8,400 species located worldwide.[4][5]
Beginning
Scientist David Wake founded AmphibiaWeb in 2000. Wake had been inspired by the decline of amphibian populations across the world.[6][7] He founded it at the Digital Library Project at the University of California at Berkeley in 2000. Wake came to consider AmphibiaWeb part of his legacy.[3][8]
Uses
AmphibiaWeb provides information to the IUCN, CalPhotos, Encyclopedia of Life and iNaturalist,[8] and the database is cited in scientific publications.[9][10][11][12]
References
- ↑ "DATABASE: Down at the Frog Pond". Science 305 (5690): 1543. September 10, 2004. doi:10.1126/science.305.5690.1543a.
- ↑ All Things Considered (August 2, 2012). "Discovery Of 7,000th Amphibian Celebrated In Song". NPR. https://www.npr.org/2012/08/02/157880479/discovery-of-7-000th-amphibian-celebrated-in-song. Retrieved April 10, 2022.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Robert Sanders (July 30, 2012). "Despite global amphibian decline, number of known species soars". University California at Berkeley. https://news.berkeley.edu/2012/07/30/despite-global-amphibian-decline-number-of-known-species-soars/.
- ↑ AmphibiaWeb Team. "About Amphibiaweb". AmphibiaWeb. https://amphibiaweb.org/about/index.html.
- ↑ Diane Schmidtt (2014). Using the Biological Literature: A Practical Guide (4 ed.). CRC Press. p. 320. ISBN 9781466558571. https://books.google.com/books?id=4RkyAwAAQBAJ&dq=Do+scientists+use+AmphibiaWeb+as+a+standard&pg=PA320. Retrieved July 2, 2020.
- ↑ Richard Sandomir (May 19, 2021). "David Wake, Expert on Salamanders and Evolution, Dies at 84". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/19/science/david-wake-dead.html. Retrieved June 4, 2021.
- ↑ Lisa Winter (May 21, 2021). "Salamander Expert David Wake Dies at 84". Scientist. https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/salamander-expert-david-wake-dies-at-84-68788. Retrieved June 4, 2021.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "AmphibiaWeb Project". Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at Berkeley. http://mvz.berkeley.edu/Amphibiaweb_info.html.
- ↑ Yap, T. A.; Koo, M. S.; Ambrose, R. F.; Vredenburg, V. T. (2018). "Introduced bullfrog facilitates pathogen invasion in the western United States.". PLOS ONE 13 (4): e0188384. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0188384. PMID 29659568. Bibcode: 2018PLoSO..1388384Y.
- ↑ Richard M. Lehtinen; Frank Glaw; Miguel Vences; Andolalao Rakotoarison; Mark D. Scherz (2018). "Two new Pandanus frogs (Guibemantis: Mantellidae: Anura) from northern Madagascar". European Journal of Taxonomy (451). doi:10.5852/ejt.2018.451. https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/582. Retrieved July 2, 2020.
- ↑ Mu L; Zhou L; Yang J (2017). "The first identified cathelicidin from tree frogs possesses anti-inflammatory and partial LPS neutralization activities.". Amino Acids 49 (9): 1571–1585. doi:10.1007/s00726-017-2449-7. PMID 28593346.
- ↑ Zhan X; Wu H; Wu H (2020). "Metabolites from Bufo gargarizans (Cantor, 1842): A review of traditional uses, pharmacological activity, toxicity and quality control". Journal of Ethnopharmacology (J Ethnopharmacol) 246: 112178. doi:10.1016/j.jep.2019.112178. PMID 31445132. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31445132/. Retrieved July 2, 2020.
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