Ambient Ultraviolet B Radiation and Prevalence of Infection by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Two Amphibian Species

Conservation Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 975-982

  Ortiz Santaliestra, Manuel E ^a   Fisher, Matthew C ^b   Fernández Beaskoetxea, Saioa ^c   Fernández Benéitez, María J ^a   Bosch, Jaime ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amphibian declines; Cambio global; Chytridiomycosis; Declinaciones de anfibios; Emergent diseases; Enfermedades emergentes; Estresantes m ltiples; Global change; Multiple stressors; Quitridiomicosis; UV B

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE SPREAD; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUNGAL DISEASE; GLOBAL CHANGE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IRRADIATION; LARVA; MOUNTAIN REGION; POPULATION DECLINE; TOAD; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; DERMATOMYCOSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; LARVA; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPAIN; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOAD; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; BUFONIDAE; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; DERMATOMYCOSES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; LARVA; LINEAR MODELS; SPAIN; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

IBERIAN PENINSULA; LAGUNA GRANDE DE PENALARA; MADRID [SPAIN]; SPAIN;

ALYTES OBSTETRICANS; AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; BUFO BUFO; FUNGI;

EID: 80052577162     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01700.x     Document Type: Article

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