Evidence of effects of endemic chytridiomycosis on host survival, behavior, and emigration: Reply to Schmidt

Conservation Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 900-902

  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 GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; EMIGRATION; ENDEMISM; FUNGAL DISEASE; HOST SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL;

EID: 77956525877     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01508.x     Document Type: Article

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