Dynamics of an emerging disease drive large-scale amphibian population extinctions

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

Volumn 107, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 9689-9694

  Vredenburg, Vance T ^a   Knapp, Roland A ^b   Tunstall, Tate S ^c,d   Briggs, Cheryl J ^d  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Departments of Cognitive Science and Neurosciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian declines; Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis; Chytridiomycosis; Emerging infectious disease; Rana muscosa

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOSIS; FROG; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; MYCOSES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RANIDAE; VIRULENCE;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; RANA MUSCOSA;

EID: 77953093820     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0914111107     Document Type: Article

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