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Science 11 October 2002:
Vol. 298. no. 5592, pp. 339 - 341
DOI: 10.1126/science.298.5592.339b
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HERPETOLOGY:
100 Frogs A-Leaping for Biodiversity

Elizabeth Pennisi

While other herpetologists have been scrambling to understand why amphibians are declining worldwide, one research team has been cataloging more than 100 new species, all from one postage stamp of a rain forest in Sri Lanka. The discovery of this biodiversity hot spot, reported on page 379 of this issue, increases the number of known frog species on the island fivefold.

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