Climate Change Effect on Coqui Frogs

There was an article published recently by Science Daily, bringing attention to research that has come to light on the coqui frogs of Puerto Rico.  The study focused on Eleutherodactylus coqui and how climate change is causing a change in the species.  The experiment consisted of male coqui frogs being examined in 1983 and again in 2006, all from different altitudes in Puerto Rico.  The male coqui frogs were observed to have become smaller over the years, which in turn created a higher pitched, shorter mating call.  This can be linked to temperature change and a way for the coqui species to adapt to that change.  The research has clearly proven that climate change is having an effect on the coqui frog.  The continuation of climate change will keep changing the coqui frogs, and could quite possibly drive the species to extinction.  If this little species is being influenced this much by climate change, how many other species are also being effected?  Climate change has a large effect on every organism on the planet and this is just a look into what could happen to many of the species that call this place home.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140414160854.htm