Effects of an infectious fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, on amphibian predator-prey interactions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Han, Barbara A ^a   Searle, Catherine L ^b   Blaustein, Andrew R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAXYRUS BOREAS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CHEMICAL CUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FROG; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREY SELECTION; PSEUDOCRIS REGILLA; RANA AURORA; RANA CASCADAE; SPECIES REFUGE; TADPOLE; AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FOOD CHAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; BOREAS; FUNGI; SALAMANDROIDEA;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; DISEASE VECTORS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; LARVA; MYCOSES; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; URODELA;

EID: 79551649549     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016675     Document Type: Article

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