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Recent publications:

Fey, S. B., A. M. Siepielski, S. Nussle, K. Cervantes-Yoshida, J. L. Hwan, E. Hubber, M. J. Fey, A. Catenazzi and S. M. Carlson. 2015. Recent shifts in the occurrence, causes, and magnitude of animal mass mortality events. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA112: 1083-1088.  News coverage: UC Berkeley | National Geographic | CBS News | Yale | Bloomberg | Science Daily
Catenazzi, A. and R. von May. 2014. Conservation status of amphibians in Peru. In: Status of Conservation and Decline of Amphibians: Western Hemisphere. H. Heatwole, C. Barrios-Amorós and J. Wilkinson (editors). Volume 9 in: Amphibian Biology, H. Heatwole (ed.), Herpetological Monographs 28: 1-23.
Chávez, G., A. Catenazzi. 2014. A new Andean lizard of the genus Potamites (Sauria, Gymnophthalmidae) from Manu National Park, southeastern Peru. Zootaxa 3774: 45-56.  News coverage: Sernanp | El Comercio | El Colombiano | Peru21 | La Republica | Mongabay | RPP Noticias
Catenazzi, A., E. Lehr and V. T. Vredenburg. 2014. Thermal physiology, disease and amphibian declines in the eastern slopes of the Andes. Conservation Biology 28: 509-517.  News coverage: Livescience  | ScienceDaily | redOrbit |  Saluki Times
Havik, G., A. Catenazzi and M. Holmgren. 2014. Seabird nutrient subsidies benefit non-nitrogen fixing trees and alter species composition in South American coastal dry forests. PLOS ONE 9(1): e86381. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0086381  News coverage: AlphaGalileo  |  ScienceDaily  |   Sciworthy
Catenazzi, A., E. Lehr and R. von May. 2013. The amphibians and reptiles of Manu National Park and its buffer zone, Amazon basin and eastern slopes of the Andes, Peru. Biota Neotropica 13(4): 269–283.   News coverage: National Geographic | Andina | Mongabay | Peruthisweek.com | GreenReport.it | Amazon Aid Foundation | Infoamazonia | Amphibian conservation blog |  FrogLog
Catenazzi, A. and S. J. Kupferberg. 2013. The importance of thermal conditions to recruitment success in stream-breeding frog populations distributed across a productivity gradient. Biological Conservation 168:40-48
Catenazzi, A, R von May, VT Vredenburg. 2013. High prevalence of infection in tadpoles increases vulnerability to fungal pathogen in high-Andean amphibians. Biol Conservation 159:413-421
Böhm, M, et al. 2013. The conservation status of the world's reptiles. Biological Conservation 157: 372-385  News coverage:  BBC  | Time | IUCN | The Guardian
Catenazzi, A, R von May, E Lehr, G Gagliardi-Urrutia, JM Guayasamin. 2012. A new, high-elevation glassfrog (Anura: Centrolenidae) from Manu National Park, southern Peru. Zootaxa 3388: 56-68    News coverage:  San Francisco Chronicle  | Mongabay English / Spanish | Wired | El Comercio | FrogLog
Kupferberg, SJ, W Palen, A Lind, S Bobzien, A Catenazzi, J Drennan, ME Power. 2012. Effects of altered flow regimes by dams on survival, population declines, and range-wide losses of California river-breeding frogs. Conservation Biology 26: 513-524
Catenazzi A, E Lehr, LO Rodriguez, VT Vredenburg. 2011. Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and the collapse of anuran species richness and abundance in the upper Manu National Park, SE Peru. Conservation Biology 25: 382-391 | monitoring

A guide to the frogs of the upper Manu National Park, Peru (>2400 m):

Big news from the ridgetop -- rapid biological inventory with the Field Museum in northern Peru

http://rapidinventories.blogspot.com/2011/08/big-news-from-ridgetop.html

A guide to the amphibians and reptiles of the Kampankis mountains, northern Peru

Atelopus patazensis in the news: 

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