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Leaf Litter Magazine

Leaf Litter is the online magazine of Tree Walkers International. Leaf Litter is published twice a year and is available for free to TWI members. Each issue contains stunning photography and articles related to amphibian conservation, amphibian ecology and natural history, and amphibian captive husbandry.

If you are interested in submitting an article to be considered for publication, a set of the Author's Guidelines can be downloaded here.

Issue 3.1
(Preview and purchase a printed copy of this issue HERE)

 

 

Table of Contents

  • Offspring Begging, Larval Relocation and Parental Care in Dendrobates auratus by Benjamin K. Chan
  • The Use of a Modified Shipping Container as an Amphibian Laboratory at the Atlanta Botanical Garden by Dante Fenolio, Robert Hill, Julia Kaylock, Jenny Cruse Sanders
  • A Decade of Amphibian Conservation Action in Panama: From Golden Frogs to Marsupials by Paul Crump, Ron Gagliardo, Edgardo Griffith, Heidi Gross, Joseph R. Mendelson III, Kevin Zippel
  • Atelopus zeteki by Dennis Nilsson
  • (Further) Notes on Dendrobates auratus by Frank Steinmann
  • Confessions of a Pumilio Chaser by Steve Waldron
  • The Oophaga pumilio of Escudo de Veraguas by Justin Yeager

Issue 2.2  
 

Table of Contents

  • Editorial: Breaking the Glass Box by Devin Edmonds 
  • Folium: The Allure of the Aroid by Richard Revis
  • Health and Nutrition: Choosing a Vitamin Supplement by Ed Kowalski
  • Herping in Anytown, U.S.A. by Ron Skylstad
  • Further Impressions of Tarapoto: Frogs and Art by Tracy Hicks
  • When Father Chimborazo Took the Frogs Away by John E. Simmons
  • Notes on the Husbandy, Captive Breeding, and Distinct Juvenile Form of Wallace's Flying Frog (Rhacophorus nigropalmatus) by Michael Ready
  • Solace of Untouched Wilderness by Emily Lisborg

 

 

Issue 2.1

 

Table of Contents

  • Why Cry When an Amphibian Dies: A Modest Editorial for the Amphibian Keeper by Ed Kowalski
  • Tackling Amphibian Declines: A Global Responsibility by Jessica Crowley
  • Salamanders: A Pacific Perspective by Tim Paine
  • Tarapoto: Catching Frogs in Peru by Tracy Hicks
  • Challenges of Integrating the Private Sector in Amphibian Captive Breeding Programs by Brent L. Brock
  • Mantellas: A Gateway to Leaf Litter Frogs by Tor Linbo
  • Oophaga pumilio: Microhabitat, Adaptability and the Conservation Crisis by J.P. Lawrence

 

 

 

Issue 1.2

Table of Contents

  • Urban Wetland by Ben Eiben
  • Adapting Quarantine Practices to the Amphibian Hobbyist's Collection by Matthew Campbell
  • Tarapoto: Impressions by Tracy Hicks
  • Life In the Treetops by Dante Fenolio
  • Spindly Leg Syndrome: A Review by Ed Kowalski
  • Carbon Dioxide in the Terrarium by Thomas Falk

  

Issue 1.1
 

Table of Contents

  • Field Notes on Silverstone's Poison Frog by Justin Yeager
  • The Smuggling Crisis by Mark Pepper, Evan Twomey, Jason L. Brown
  • Breeding Atelopus flavescens by Petter Mudde
  • Constructing an Artificial Beaver Pond for Amphibians by Brent L. Brock
  • A Visit to Two Unique Mantella Populations in East-Central Madagascar by Devin Edmonds
  • The Broken Cycle by Brent L. Brock