TY - CHAP AU - Leonardo de Azevedo Calderon AU - Rodrigo Guerino Stábeli ED - Oscar Grillo ED - Gianfranco Venora Y1 - 2011-11-14 PY - 2011 T1 - Anuran Amphibians: A Huge and Threatened Factory of a Variety of Active Peptides with Potential Nanobiotechnological Applications in the Face of Amphibian Decline N2 - As everybody knows, the dynamic interactions between biotic and abiotic factors, as well as the anthropic ones, considerably affect global climate changes and consequently biology, ecology and distribution of life forms of our planet. These important natural events affect all ecosystems, causing important changes on biodiversity. Systematic and phylogenetic studies, biogeographic distribution analysis and evaluations of diversity richness are focal topics of this book written by international experts, some even considering economical effects and future perspectives on the managing and conservation plans. BT - Changing Diversity in Changing Environment SP - Ch. 10 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/25106 DO - 10.5772/25106 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-27 ER -