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Amphibians are sensitive to loss of habitat amount and quality, given their limited mobility
over long distances and high dependence on microhabitat for reproduction. The Atlantic
Forest has 543 known species of amphibians of which 472 (88%) are endemic. Currently, this
same biome has between 11.4% and 16.0% of its original size, with 80% of fragme...
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