Conservation Status
The wood frog is not endangered or threatened. In many parts of its range urbanization is fragmenting wood frog populations. Several studies have shown that under certain thresholds of forest cover loss or over certain thresholds of road density, wood frogs and other common amphibians begin to "drop out" of formerly occupied habitats. Another conservation concern is that wood frogs are primarily dependent on smaller, "geographically isolated" wetlands for breeding. At least in the United States, these wetlands are largely unprotected by federal law, leaving it up to individual states to tackle the problem of conserving pool-breeding amphibians.
The wood frog has a complex life cycle that depends on multiple habitats, damp lowlands, adjacent woodlands. Wood frog habitat conservation is, therefore, complex, requiring integrated, landscape-scale preservation.
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