Reptiles and Amphibians of Monteverde
 
 
Male Golden Toads waiting to intercept females at a breeding pool in the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve.  Photo by Michael and Patricia Fogden.
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  • Barinaga, M.1990.Where have all the froggies gone? Science 247:1033-1034.
  • Beebee, T. 1993. Conservation of the golden toad. British Herpetological Society Bulletin No. 46, 28.
  • _____. 1995. Amphibian breeding and climate. Nature 374:219-220.
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  • Blaustein, A. R., P. D. Hoffman, D. G. Hokit, J. M. Kiesecker, S. C. Walls, and J. B. Hays. 1994b. UV repair and resistance to solar UV-B in amphibian eggs: a link to population declines? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 91:1791-1795.
  • Brenes, A., and V. F. Saborio. 1994. Changes in the general circulation and its influence on precipitation trends in Central America: Costa Rica. Ambio 23:87-90.
  • Campbell, J. A. 1982. The biogeography of the cloud forest herpetofauna of Middle America, with special reference to the Sierra de las Minas of Guatemala. Ph. D. Thesis. University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
  • Carr, A. F. 1955. The windward road. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, USA.
  • Crump, M. L.1983. Opportunistic cannibalism by amphibian larvae in temporary aquatic environments. American Naturalist 121:281-289.
  • _____. 1984. Ontogenetic changes in vulnerability to predation in tadpoles of Hyla pseudopuma. Herpetologica 40:265-271.
  • _____. 1986. Homing and site fidelity in a neotropical frog, Atelopus varius (Bufonidae). Copeia 1986:438-444.
  • _____. 1988. Aggression in harlequin frogs: male-male competition and a possible conflict of interests between the sexes. Animal Behavior 36:1064-1077.
  • _____. 1989a. Effects of habitat drying on developmental time and size at metamorphosis in Hyla pseudopuma. Copeia 1989:794-797.
  • _____. 1989b. Life-history consequences of feeding versus non-feeding in a facultatively non-feeding toad larva. Oecologia 78:486-489.
  • _____. 1990. Possible enhancement of growth in tadpoles through cannibalism. Copeia 1990:560-564.
  • _____. 1991a. You eat what you are. Natural History 100:46-51.
  • _____. 1991b. Choice of oviposition site and egg load assessment by a treefrog. Herpetologica 47:308-315.
  • Crump, M. L., F. R. Hensley, and K. L. Clark. 1992. Apparent decline of the golden toad: underground or extinct? Copeia 1992:413-420.
  • Crump, M. L., and J. A. Pounds. 1985. Lethal parasitism of an aposematic anuran (Atelopus varius) by Notochaeta bufonivora (Diptera: Sarcophagidae). Journal of Parasitology 71:588-591.
  • Crump, M. L., and J. A. Pounds. 1989. Temporal variation in the dispersion of a tropical anuran. Copeia 1989:209-211.
  • Crump, M. L., and D. S. Townsend. 1990. Random mating by size in a neotropical treefrog, Hyla pseudopuma. Herpetologica 46:383-386.
  • Czechura, G. V. 1991. The twilight zone. Wildlife Australia 28:20-22.
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  • Duellman, W. E. 1970. The hylid frogs of Middle America. Monographs Museum of Natural History University of Kansas No. 1. University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
  • _____. 1988. Patterns of species diversity in anuran amphibians in the American tropics. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 75:79-104.
  • _____. 1990. Herpetofaunas in neotropical rainforests: comparative composition, history, and resource use. Pages 455-505 in A. H. Gentry, editor. Four neotropical rainforests. Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
  • Duellman, W. E., and L. Trueb. 1986. Biology of amphibians. McGraw-Hill, New York, USA.
  • Fauth, J. E., B. I. Crother, and J. B. Slowinski. 1989. Elevational patterns of species richness, evenness, and abundance of the Costa Rican leaf-litter herpetofauna. Biotropica 21:178-185.
  • Fitch, H. S. 1972. Ecology of Anolis tropidolepis in Costa Rican cloud forest. Herpetologica 28:10-21.
  • _____. 1973. A field study of Costa Rican lizards. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 50:39-126.
  • _____. 1975. Sympatry and interrelationships in Costa Rican anoles. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History University of Kansas 40:1-60.
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  • Graham, N. E. 1995. Simulation of recent global temperature trends. Science 267:666-671.
  • Graham, N. E., and W. B. White. 1988. The El Niño cycle: a natural oscillator of the Pacific Ocean - Atmosphere System. Science 240:1293-1302.
  • Greer, B. J., and K. D. Wells. 1980. Territorial and reproductive behavior of the tropical American frog Centrolenella fleischmanni. Herpetologica 36:318-326.
  • Guyer, C. 1986. Seasonal patterns of reproduction of Norops humilis (Sauria: Iguanidae) in Costa Rica. Revista de Biología Tropical 34:247-251.
  • _____. 1994. The reptile fauna: diversity and ecology. Pages 199-209 in L. A. McDade, K. S. Bawa, H. A. Hespenheide, and G. S. Hartshorn, editors. La Selva: ecology and natural history of a neotropical rain forest. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
  • Hayes, M. P. 1983. Predation on the adults and prehatching stages of glass frogs (Centrolenidae). Biotropica 15:74-76.
  • _____. 1985. Nest structure and attendance in the stream-dwelling frog Eleutherodactylus angelicus. Journal of Herpetology 19:168-169.
  • _____. 1991. A study of clutch attendance in the neotropical frog Centrolenella fleischmanni (Anura: Centrolenidae). Ph. D. Thesis. University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA.
  • Hayes, M. P., J. A. Pounds, and D. C. Robinson. 1986. The fringe-limbed frog Hyla fimbrimembra (Anura: Hylidae): new records from Costa Rica. Florida Scientist 49:193-198.
  • Hayes, M. P., J. A. Pounds, and W. W. Timmerman. 1989. An annotated list and guide to the amphibians and reptiles of Monteverde, Costa Rica. Herpetological Circulars No. 17, 1-67.
  • Harding, K. A. 1993. Conservation and the case of the golden toad. British Herpetological Society Bulletin No. 44, 31-34.
  • Henderson, R. W. 1974. Aspects of the ecology of the neotropical vine snake, Oxybelis aeneus (Wagler). Herpetologica 30:19-24.
  • _____. 1984. Scaphiodontophis (Serpentes: Colubridae): Natural history and test of a mimicry-related hypothesis. Pages 185-194 in R. A. Seigel, L. E. Hunt, J. L. Knight, L. Malaret, and N. L. Zuschlag, editors. Vertebrate ecology and systematics-a tribute to Henry S. Fitch. Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
  • Henderson, R. W., and L. G. Hoevers. 1977. The seasonal incidence of snakes at a locality in northern Belize. Copeia 1977:349-355.
  • Heyer, W. R. 1967. A herpetofaunal study of an ecological transect through the Cordillera de Tilarán, Costa Rica. Copeia 1967:259-271.
  • Heyer, W. R., R. W. McDiarmid, and D. L. Weigmann. 1975. Tadpoles, predation, and pond habitats in the tropics. Biotropica 7:100-111.
  • Hoff, G. L., F. L. Frye, and E. R. Jacobson, editors. 1984. Diseases of amphibians and reptiles. Plenum, New York, USA.
  • Houghton, J. T., L. G. Meira Filho, B. A. Callander, N. Harris, A. Kattenberg, and K. Maskell, editors. 1996. Climate Change 1995 - The Science of Climate Change. Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
  • Jacobson, S. K. 1983. Short season of the golden toad. International Wildlife 13:25-27.
  • _____. 1985. Reproductive behavior and male mating success in two species of glass frogs (Centrolenidae). Herpetologica 41:396-404.
  • Jacobson, S. K, and J. J. Vandenberg. 1991. Reproductive ecology of the endangered golden toad (Bufo periglenes). Journal of Herpetology 25:321-327.
  • Kagarise Sherman, C., and M. L. Morton. 1993. Population declines of Yosemite toads in the eastern Sierra Nevada of California. Journal of Herpetology 27:186-198.
  • Kim, Y. H., G. H. Brown, H. S. Mosher, and F. H. Fuhrman. 1975. Tetrodotoxin: occurrence in atelopodid frogs of Costa Rica. Science 189:151-152.
  • Laurance, W. F., K. R. McDonald, and R. Speare. 1997. In defense of the epidemic disease hypothesis. Conservation Biology 11:1030-1034.
  • MacArthur, R. H. 1972. Geographical ecology: patterns in the distribution of species. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
  • McCoy, E. D. 1994. "Amphibian decline": a scientific dilemma in more ways than one. Herpetologica 50:98-103.
  • McDiarmid, R. W. 1971. Comparative morphology and evolution of frogs of the neotropical genera Atelopus, Dendrophryniscus, Melanophryniscus, and Oreophrynella. Science Bulletin of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History 12:1-66.
  • _____. 1983. Centrolenella fleischmanni. Pages 389-390 in D. H. Janzen, editor. Costa Rican Natural History. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
  • Miyamoto, M. M. 1982. Vertical habitat use by Eleutherodactylus frogs (Leptodactylidae) at two Costa Rican localities. Biotropica 14:141-144.
  • Nieuwolt, S. 1977. Tropical climatology. John Wiley and Sons, New York, New York, USA.
  • Parmesan, C. 1996. Climate and species' range. Nature 382:765-766.
  • Pechmann, J. H. K., and H. M. Wilbur. 1994. Putting declining amphibian populations in perspective: natural fluctuations and human impacts. Herpetologica 50:65-84.
  • Pechmann, J. H. K., D. E. Scott, R. D. Semlitsch, J. P. Caldwell, L. J. Vitt, and J. W. Gibson. 1991. Declining amphibian populations: the problem of separating human impacts from natural fluctuations. Science 253:892-895.
  • Peters, J. A., B. Orejas Miranda, R. Donoso Barros, and P. E. Vanzolini. 1986. Catalogue of the neotropical squamata. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., USA.
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  • Phillips, K. 1990. Where have all the frogs and toads gone? Bioscience 40:422-424.
  • _____. 1994. Tracking the vanishing frogs:  an ecological mystery. St. Martins Press, New York, USA.
  • Pounds, J. A. 1988. Ecomorphology, locomotion, and microhabitat structure: patterns in a tropical mainland Anolis community. Ecological Monographs 58:299-320.
  • _____. 1990. Disappearing gold. BBC Wildlife 8:812-817.
  • _____. 1991a. Amphibian watch: New clues in the case of the disappearing amphibians. Wildlife Conservation 94:16-18.
  • _____. 1991b. Habitat structure and morphological patterns in arboreal vertebrates. Pages 109-119 in Susan S. Bell, Earl D. McCoy, and Henry R. Mushinsky, editors. Habitat structure: the physical arrangement of objects in space. Chapman and Hall, London.
  • _____. 1997. Golden toads, null models, and climate change. Froglog, Newsletter of the Declining Amphibian Populations Task Force of the World Conservation Union's Species Survival Commission No. 23, 1-2.
  • Pounds, J. A., and M. L. Crump. 1987. Harlequin frogs along a tropical montane stream: aggregation and risk of predation by frog-eating flies. Biotropica 19:306-309.
  • Pounds, J. A., and M. L. Crump. 1994. Amphibian declines and climate disturbance: the case of the golden toad and the harlequin frog. Conservation Biology 8:72-85.
  • Pounds, J. A., and M. P. L. Fogden. 1996. Conservation of the golden toad: a brief history. British Herpetological Society Bulletin No. 55, 5-7.
  • Pounds, J. A., M. P. L. Fogden, J. M. Savage, and G. C. Gorman. 1997. Tests of null models for amphibian declines on a tropical mountain. Conservation Biology. In press.
  • Pyburn, W. F. 1970. Breeding behavior of the leaf-frogs Phyllomedusa callidryas and Phyllomedusa dacnicolor in Mexico. Copeia 1970:209-218.
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  • Santer, B. D., K. E. Taylor, T. M. L. Wigley, T. C. Johns, P. D. Jones, D. J. Karoly, J. F. B. Mitchell, A. H. Oort, J. E. Penner, V. Ramaswamy, M. D. Schwarzkopf, R. J. Stouffer, and S. Tett. 1996. A search for human influences on the thermal structure of the atmosphere. Nature 382:39-46.
  • Sarkar, S. 1996. Ecological theory and anuran declines. Bioscience 46:199-207.
  • Savage, J. M. 1966. An extraordinary new toad (Bufo) from Costa Rica. Revista de Biología Tropical 14:153-167.
  • _____. 1972. The harlequin frogs, genus Atelopus, of Costa Rica and western Panama. Herpetologica 28:77-94.
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  • Savage, J. M., and W. R. Heyer. 1969. The tree frogs (family Hylidae) of Costa Rica: diagnosis and distribution. Revista de Biología Tropical 16:1-127.
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  • _____. 1983b. Clelia clelia. Page 392 in D. H. Janzen, editor. Costa Rican natural history. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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