Climate Change Is Hastening Reptile and Amphibian Extinction. Science Daily, June 10, 2008. "New research from the American Museum of Natural History provides the first detailed study showing that global warming forces species to move up tropical mountains as their habitats shift upward. Christopher Raxworthy, associate curator in the Department of Herpetology, predicts that at least three species of amphibians and reptiles found in Madagascar's mountainous north could go extinct between 2050 and 2100 because of habitat loss associated with rising global temperatures. These species, currently moving upslope to compensate for habitat loss at lower and warmer altitudes, will eventually have no place to move to. 'Two things together -- highly localized distribution close to the very highest summits, and the magnitude of these upslope shifts in response to ongoing warming -- make a poisonous cocktail for extinction,' said Raxworthy."
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