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Amphibian Biology
Amphibian Biology
Edited by
Harold Heatwole and John W. Wilkinson
Volume 11
Status of Conservation and Decline of Amphibians: Eastern Hemisphere
Part 4
SOUTHERN EUROPE AND TURKEY
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Amphibian Biology, Volume 11: Status of Conservation and Decline of Amphibians: Eastern Hemisphere, Part 4: Southern Europe and Turkey
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Cover image: A calling male Bombina bombina in Hungary. Photograph by Bálint Halpern.
Table of contents of volume 11, Amphibian Biology: Eastern Hemisphere, Part 4 (Southern Europe and Turkey)

39 The amphibians of the Italian region: A review of conservation status
Franco Andreone
40 Amphibian conservation and declines in Malta
Patrick J. Schembri
41 Conservation and declines of amphibians in Croatia
Olga Jovanović and Dušan Jelić
42 Conservation and declines of amphibians in Slovenia
David Stanković, Martina Lužnik, and Katja Poboljšaj
43 Conservation and decline of European amphibians: The Republic of Serbia
Jelka Crnobrnja-Isailović and Momir Paunović
44 Amphibian declines and conservation in Montenegro
Ruža Ćirović
45 Status of amphibians in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Avdul Adrović
46 Conservation and protection status of amphibians in Macedonia
Bogoljub Sterijovski
47 Amphibians of Albania
Idriz Haxhiu
48 Declines and conservation of amphibians in Greece
Konstantinos Sotiropoulos and Petros Lymberakis
49 Amphibian conservation and decline in Romania
Dan Cogălniceanu and Laurenţiu Rozylowicz
50 Conservation and decline of amphibians in Hungary
Judit Vörös, István Kiss, and Miklós Puky
51 Conservation and declines of amphibians in Bulgaria
Nikolay Dimitrov Tzankov and Georgi Sashev Popgeorgiev
52 Amphibian conservation and decline in Turkey
Kurtuluş Olgun and Nazan Üzüm
53 Conservation of amphibians in Cyprus
Petros Lymberakis, Haris Nicolaou, and Konstantinos Sotiropoulos
Index
Contents of previous parts of volume 11, Amphibian Biology: Eastern Hemisphere

Part 1. Asia (edited by Harold Heatwole and Indraneil Das) 2014, Natural History Publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
1   Changes in amphibian populations in the Commonwealth of Independent States (Former Soviet Union)
Sergius L. Kuzmin and C. Kenneth Dodd Jr.
2   Status of conservation and decline of amphibians of Mongolia
Sergius L. Kuzmin
3   Diversity and conservation status of Chinese amphibians
Jianping Jiang, Feng Xie, and Cheng Li
4   The Conservation of Amphibians in Korea
Daesik Park, Mi-Sook Min, Kelly C. Lasater, Jae-Young Song, Jae-Hwa Suh, Sang-Ho Son, and Robert H. Kaplan
5   Conservation status of Japanese amphibians
Masafumi Matsui
6   Status and decline of amphibians of Afghanistan
Indraneil Das
7   Amphibians of Pakistan and their conservation status
Muhammad Sharif Khan
8   Status and decline of amphibians of India
Indraneil Das and Sushil K. Dutta
9   Sri Lankan amphibians: Extinctions and endangerment
Rohan Pethiyagoda, Kelum Manamendra-Arachchi, and Madhava Meergaskumbura
10 Amphibians of the Maldives Archipelago
Indraneil Das
11 Status, distribution, and conservation issues of the amphibians of Nepal
Karan B. Shah
12 Status of amphibian studies and conservation in Bhutan
Indraneil Das
13 Status, distribution and conservation of the amphibians of Bangladesh
A.H.M. Ali Reza
14 Amphibian conservation: Myanmar
Guinevere O.U. Wogan
15 Decline of amphibians in Thailand
Yodchaiy Chuaynkern and Prateep Duengkae
16 Amphibian conservation in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia
Jodi J.L. Rowley and Bryan L. Stuart
17 Conservation status of the amphibians of Malaysia and Singapore
Indraneil Das, Norsham Yaakob, Jeet Sukumaran, and Tzi Ming Leong
18 Conservation status of the amphibians of Brunei Darussalam
T. Ulmar Grafe and Indraneil Das
19 Status and conservation of Philippine amphibians
Arvin C. Diesmos, Angel C. Alcala, Cameron D. Siler, and Rafe Brown
20 Human impact on amphibian decline in Indonesia
Djoko T. Iskandar
21 Amphibians of Timor-Leste: A small fauna under pressure.
Hinrich Kaiser, Mark O’Shea, and Christine M. Kaiser
22 Status and diversity of the frogs of New Guinea
Allen Allison
Part 2. North Africa (edited by Stephen D. Busack and Harold Heatwole) 2014, Basic and Applied Herpetology, Asociación Herpetológica Española, Madrid
23 Introduction
Harold Heatwole and Stephen D. Busack
24 Amphibian conservation in Mauritania
José Manuel Padial, Pierre-André Crochet, Philippe, Geniez, and José Carolos Brito
25 Amphibians of Morocco, including Western Sahara: A status report
Ricardo Reques, Juan M. Pleguezuelos, and Stephen D. Busack
26 Diversity and conservation of Algerian amphibian assemblages
José A. Mateo, Philippe Geniez, and Jim Pether
27 Conservation status of amphibians in Tunisia
Nabil Amor, Mohsen Kalboussi, and Khaled Said
28 Amphibians in Libya: A status report
Adel A. Ibrahim
29. Amphibians of Egypt: A troubled resource
Adel A. Ibrahim
Part 3. Western Europe (edited by Harold Heatwole and John W. Wilkinson) 2013
31 Infectious diseases that may threaten Europe’s amphibians
Trent W.J. Garner, An Martel, Jon Bielby, Jaime Bosch, Lucy G. Anderson, Anna Meredith, Andrew A. Cunningham, Matthew C. Fisher, Daniel A. Henk, and Frank Pasmans
32 Conservation and declines of amphibians in Ireland
Ferdia Marnell
33 Amphibian declines and conservation in Britain
John W. Wilkinson and Richard A. Griffiths
34 Conservation and declines of amphibians in The Netherlands
Anton H.P. Stumpel
35 Amphibian declines and conservation in Belgium
Gerald Louette and Dirk Bauwens
36 Amphibian declines and conservation in France
Jean-Pierre Vacher and Claude Miaud
37 Conservation and declines of amphibians in Spain
Cesar Ayres, Enrique Ayllon, Jaime Bosch, Alberto Montori, Manuel Ortiz-Santaliestra, and Vicente Sancho
38 Conservation and declines of amphibians in Portugal
Rui Rebelo, Maria José Domingues Castro, Maria João Cruz, José Miguel Oliveira, José Teixeira, and Eduardo Crespo
Contributors to Part 4 (Southern Europe and Turkey)

EDITORS
Heatwole, Harold , Department of Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7617, USA
harold_heatwole@ncsu.edu
Wilkinson, John W. , Amphibian and Reptile Conservation, 655A Christchurch Road, Boscombe, Bournemouth, BH1 4AP, Dorset, UK
Johnw.wilkinson@arc-trust.org
AUTHORS
Andreone, Franco , Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Sezione di Zoologia, Via G. Giolitti, 36, I-10123 Torino, Italy
franco.andreone@gmail.it
Adrović, Avdullahu , Univerzitet u Tuzli, Univerzitetska 4, 75000 Tuzla, Bosna i Hercegovina
avdul.adrovic@hotmail.com
Ćirović, Ruža , Environmental Protection Agency of Montenegro, Department for Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting, No. 19 IV Proleterske, 81,000 Podgorica, Montenegro
rcirovic@t-com.me
Cogălniceanu, Dan , Ovidius University of Constanţa, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Aleea Universităţii nr. I, Corp B, 900470 Constanţa, Romania
dcogalniceanu@univ-ovidius.ro
Crnobrnja-Isailović , Jekla, Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, University of Niš, Višegradska 33, 18000 Niš, Serbia
jelka.c.i@gmail.com
Haxhiu, Idriz , Herpetofauna Albanian Society, Rruga Myslym Shyri, P.10, Sh.1, Ap.3 Cel: 00355 68, 200 3235, Albania
idriz_haxhiu@yahoo.com
Jelić, Dušan , Croatian Institute for Biodiversity, Croatian Herpetological Society Hyla, I. Breznička 5a, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
jelic.dusan@gmail.com
Jovanović, Olga , Department of Biology, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Cara Hadrijana 8/A, 31000 Osijek, Croatia
jovanovic.olga@gmail.com
Kiss, István , Department of Zoology and Animal Ecology, Szent István University, 2103 Gödöllő, Páter Károly u. 1., Hungary
Kiss.istvan@mkk.szie.hu
Lužnik, Martina , Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies, University of Priomorska, Glagoljaška 8, SI-6000, Koper, Slovenia
martina.luznik@upr.si
Lymberakis, Petros , Natural History Museum of Crete, University of Crete, 71409 Herakleio, Greece
lyberis@nhmc.uoc.gr
Nicolaou, Haris , Forestry Department, Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment, 1414 Nicosia, Cyprus
nicolaouharis@cytanet.com.cy
Olgun, Kurtuluş , University of Adnan Menderes, Faculty of Science and Art, Biology Department, Kepez, 09010 Aydin, Turkey
kolgun@adu.edu.tr
Paunović, Momir , Institute for Biological Research “Siniša Stanković”, Bulevar Despota Stefana 142, 11000 Beograd, Serbia
mpaunovi@ibiss.bg.ac.rs
Poboljšaj, Katja , Center for Cartography of Fauna and Flora, Antoličičeva 1, SI-2204 Miklavž na Dravskem polju, Slovenia
katja.poboljša