Long-term disease dynamics in lakes: Causes and consequences of chytrid infections in Daphnia populations

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 132-144

  Johnson, Pieter T J ^a,b   Ives, Anthony R ^b   Lathrop, Richard C ^b   Carpenter, Stephen R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Chytridiomycete; Climate change; Daphnia pulicaria; Epizootic; Limnology; Parasitoid; Pathogen; Polycaryum laeve; Time series; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FUNGUS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LIMNOLOGY; PARASITOID; PATHOGEN; SNOW; STRATIFICATION; TIME SERIES; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; DAPHNIA; ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME;

ANIMALS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; DAPHNIA; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA PULICARIA; PULICARIA;

EID: 63849107812     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-2071.1     Document Type: Article

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