Environmental Refuge from Disease-Driven Amphibian Extinction

Conservation Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 956-964

  Puschendorf, Robert ^a   Hoskin, Conrad J ^a,b   Cashins, Scott D ^a   Mcdonald, Keith ^c   Skerratt, Lee F ^a   Vanderwal, Jeremy ^a   Alford, Ross A ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amphibian declines; Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis; Declinaciones de anfibios; Environmental refugia; Extinci n; Extinction; Litoria lorica; Litoria nannotis; Pathogen tolerance; Refugios ambientales; Tolerancia a pat genos

Indexed keywords

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE SPREAD; ELEVATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; EXTINCTION; FROG; FUNGUS; INFECTIVITY; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MORTALITY; PATHOGEN; RAINFOREST; RARE SPECIES; RED LIST; REFUGE; TOLERANCE; TROPICAL REGION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; DERMATOMYCOSIS; ECOSYSTEM; FROGS AND TOADS; LARVA; MICROBIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANURA; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; DERMATOMYCOSES; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; LARVA; PREVALENCE; QUEENSLAND;

AUSTRALIA;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; FUNGI; LITORIA; LITORIA NANNOTIS; LORICA;

EID: 80052574749     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01728.x     Document Type: Article

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