“Amphibians are teaching us lessons about the state of our planet. Waves of unstoppable fungal epidemics have all but silenced the wonderful frog choruses, all but eliminated the massive hidden biomass of invertebrate-consuming salamanders, and they have done so in some of the most remote and pristine areas left on our planet, including national parks. Those remote and fully protected areas may end up little more than ghosts of epidemics past.”
— From Lessons of the Lost by Joseph R. Mendelson III in American Scientist.
