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A quest to save frogs

Powering through floods, exhaustion and tick bites is all in a day’s work for Jodi Rowley.
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  1. Amber Dance

    1. Amber Dance is a freelance writer in Los Angeles, California.

Jodi Rowley at Macquarie Marshes

Jodi Rowley is curator for amphibian and reptile conservation biology at the Australian Museum and the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Credit: Tharindu Jay for Nature

As an amphibian biologist, I’m particularly obsessed with frogs, which are important in ecosystems because they eat insects and are themselves eaten by birds and reptiles. But frogs are vulnerable: 40% of amphibian species worldwide are at risk of extinction. We’ve already lost at least four frog species in Australia. By going into the field to assess frog populations and identify new species, I collect data that help them to get the attention they need for conservation planning.

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Nature 576, 504 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03843-3

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