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Anthropogenic noise represents a major obstacle to anurans in urban landscapes because they rely heavily on vocalizations to find breeding grounds, choose mates, and settle territorial disputes. A large proportion of urban frogs may be affected by noise, as past research suggest…

California’s Sierra Nevada is on the brink of transformation, and ecological changes are increasingly manifested at broad spatial scales. The California spotted owl (Strix occidentalis occidentalis) is threatened by at least three of the “big four” threats to biodiversity: habit…