Tropical amphibian populations experience higher disease risk in natural habitats

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

Volumn 108, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 9893-9898

  Becker, C Guilherme ^a   Zamudio, Kelly R ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Anurans; Chytridiomycosis; Neotropics; Pathogen; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; BRAZIL; CHYTRIDIOMYCOSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COSTA RICA; CRAUGASTOR FITZINGERI; DEFORESTATION; DENDROPSOPHUS MINUTUS; FROG; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INFECTION RISK; LITORIA LESUEURI; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MICROCLIMATE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; ANURA; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; BRAZIL; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; COSTA RICA; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; FUNGI;

EID: 79960028455     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1014497108     Document Type: Article

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