Can a Single Amphibian Species Be a Good Biodiversity Indicator

Although amphibians have been widely promoted as indicators of biodiversity and environmental change, rigorous tests are lacking. Here key indicator criteria are distilled from published papers, and a species that has been promoted as a bioindicator, the great crested newt, is tested against them. Although a link was established between the presence of great crested newts and aquatic plant diversity, this was not repeated with the diversity of macroinvertebrates. Equally, amphibians do not meet many of the published criteria of bioindicators. Our research suggests that a suite of indicators, rather than a single species, will usually be required.

• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Diversity

• Publication date

  2009-11-13

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.3390/D1020102
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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