Selecting for extinction: Nonrandom disease-associated extinction homogenizes amphibian biotas

Ecology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1069-1078

  Smith, Kevin G ^a   Lips, Karen R ^b,c   Chase, Jonathan M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian chytrid; Amphibian declines; Beta diversity; Biodiversity; Biotic homogenization; Chytridiomycosis; Extinction; Scale dependence; Similarity; Wildlife disease

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; BIODIVERSITY; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FUNGAL DISEASE; HOMOGENEITY; LOCAL EXTINCTION; PATHOGEN; PHYLOGENETICS; POPULATION DECLINE; RELICT COMMUNITY;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOSIS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; MYCOSES; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY;

AMPHIBIA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS;

EID: 70349096701     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01363.x     Document Type: Article

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