Ask An Expert: Anurans (Frogs and Toads)
Got Nature? Blog: Join Drs. Rod Williams, Jason Hoverman and Michael Lannoo to learn interesting facts about frogs and toads, their natural history, research about the threats they face, and what can you do to help these species.
If you have any questions regarding wildlife, trees, forest management, wood products, natural resource planning or other natural resource topics, feel free to contact us by using our Ask an Expert web page.
Resources
- Mythbusters, Got Nature? Blog, Purdue Extension – Forestry and Natural Resources
- Frogs and Toads of Indiana, The Education Store, Purdue Extension resource center
- Appreciating Reptiles and Amphibians in Nature, The Education Store
- Forestry Management for Reptiles and Amphibians: A Technical Guide for the Midwest, The Education Store
- The Nature of Teaching, Unit 3: Reptiles, Amphibians, and the Scientific Method, The Education Store
- Ecotoxicology and Environmental Health, The Education Store
- Disease Ecology, The Education Store
- Okoboji Wetlands: A Lesson in Natural History, 1996, University of Iowa Press
- Status and Conservation of Midwestern Amphibians, 1998
- Amphibian Declines, 2005, University of California Press
- Malformed Frogs: The Collapse of Aquatic Ecosystems, 2008
- Leopold’s Shack and Ricketts’s Lab: The Emergence of Environmentalism, 2010
- The Iowa Lakeside Laboratory: A Century of Discovering the Nature of Nature, 2012
- North American Amphibians: Distribution and Diversity, 2014
- This Land is Your Land: The Story of Field Biology in America, 2018, The University of Chicago Press
- The Call of the Crawfish Frog, 2020
- AmphibiaWeb
- Indiana Herp atlas
- Amphibian Ecology and Conservation
- Handbook of Larval Amphibians of the United States and Canada, Cornell Press
Rod Williams, Professor of Wildlife Science
Purdue University Department of Forestry and Natural Resources
Jason Hoverman, Professor of Vertebrate Ecology
Purdue University Department of Forestry and Natural Resources
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