Impact and dynamics of disease in species threatened by the amphibian chytrid fungus, batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

Conservation Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1242-1252

  Murray, Kris A ^a   Skerratt, Lee F ^b   Speare, Rick ^b   McCallum, Hamish ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amphibian declines; Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis; Chytridiomycosis; Endemic; Epidemiology; Mark recapture; Survival; Transmission

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; DETECTION METHOD; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENDEMISM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FROG; FUNGAL DISEASE; FUNGUS; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MORTALITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAINFOREST; SURVIVAL;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FUNGUS; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; FUNGI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; FUNGI; LITORIA PEARSONIANA;

EID: 70349196033     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01211.x     Document Type: Article

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