Linking global climate and temperature variability to widespread amphibian declines putatively caused by disease

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 8269-8274

  Rohr, Jason R ^a   Raffel, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chytridiomycosis; Climate change; Conservation; El Ni o; Emerging infectious disease

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; INFECTION; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; BUFONIDAE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; PACIFIC OCEAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

AMPHIBIA; ATELOPUS; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; FUNGI;

EID: 77952346608     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0912883107     Document Type: Article

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