Parasitic copepod (lernaea cyprinacea) outbreaks in foothill yellow-legged frogs (rana boylii) linked to unusually warm summers and amphibian malformations in Northern California

Copeia

Volumn 2009, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 529-537

  Kupferberg, Sarah J ^a,b   Catenazzi, Alessandro ^b   Lunde, Kevin ^c   Lind, Amy J ^d   Palen, Wendy J ^e  

^a Questa Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^e SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASELINE SURVEY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRUSTACEAN; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; FROG; HABITAT CONSERVATION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION OUTBREAK; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER TEMPERATURE; WATERSHED;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; COPEPODA; LERNAEA CYPRINACEA; PSEUDACRIS REGILLA; RANA BOYLII; RANA CATESBEIANA;

EID: 77649219168     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1643/CH-08-011     Document Type: Article

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