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    RESEARCH STUDY ON AMPHIBIANS

    Amphibians are a clade of over 8,400 species that provide


    unique research opportunities and challenges. With amphibians
    undergoing severe global declines, we posit that assessing our
    current understanding of amphibians is imperative. Focusing on
    the past five years (2016–2020), we examine trends in

    amphibians continue to be described at a pace of ∼150 per


    amphibian research, data, and systematics. New species of

    year. Phylogenomic studies are increasing, fueling a growing


    consensus in the amphibian tree of life. Over 3,000 species of
    amphibians are now represented by expert-curated accounts or
    data in AmphibiaWeb, AmphibiaChina, BIOWEB, or the
    Amphibian Disease Portal. Nevertheless, many species lack
    basic natural history data (e.g., diet records, morphological
    measurements, call recordings) and major gaps exist for entire
    amphibian clades. Genomic resources appear on the cusp of a
    rapid expansion, but large, repetitive amphibian genomes still
    pose significant challenges. Conservation continues to be a
    major focus for amphibian research, and threats cataloged on
    AmphibiaWeb for 1,261 species highlight the need to address
    land use change and disease using adaptive management
    strategies. To further promote amphibian research and
    conservation, we underscore the importance of database
    integration and suggest that other understudied or imperiled
    clades would benefit from similar assessments of existing data.

    Amphibians are an ancient, diverse lineage of vertebrates


    that have been studied in research fields from evolution and
    ecology to engineering and medicine. Although amphibians are
    often considered to be sensitive to perturbation, they have
    survived the last four global mass extinction events and have a
    nearly worldwide distribution (Wake and Vredenburg, 2008;
    Kerby et al., 2010; Barnosky et al., 2011; Alroy, 2015). Most
    have biphasic lifestyles, serving as a vital link for energy and
    nutrient flows between terrestrial and aquatic systems (Finlay
    and Vredenburg, 2007). Many species have large populations
    and fast growth rates, occupying key roles in food webs as
    abundant food sources while simultaneously shaping the
    functional diversity of their own prey communities (Colón-Gaud
    et al., 2009; Zipkin et al., 2020). Despite the ecological
    importance of amphibians and their diverse evolutionary
    histories, we lack basic natural history and geographic
    distribution data for a large proportion of species, with 16.4%
    (1,185 species) classified as Data Deficient by the International
    Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)—the highest
    proportion of data deficiency for any vertebrate class (IUCN,
    2021).

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