Effects of chytrid fungus and a glyphosate-based herbicide on survival and growth of wood frogs (Lithobates sylvaticus)

Ecological Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2521-2529

  Gahl, Megan K ^a   Pauli, Bruce D ^b   Houlahan, Jeff E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amphibian disease; Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis; Chytrid fungus; Chytridiomycosis; Cofactors; Glyphosate; Herbicide; Immune response; Lithobates sylvaticus; Long term experimental Wetlands Area, southwestern New Brunswick, Canada; Multiple stressors; Wood frog

Indexed keywords

DRUG DERIVATIVE; GLYCINE; GLYPHOSATE; HERBICIDE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FROG; FUNGUS; GLYPHOSATE; GROWTH RATE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; METAMORPHOSIS; MORTALITY; PATHOGENICITY; POPULATION DECLINE; SUBLETHAL EFFECT; SURVIVAL; WETLAND;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; DRUG EFFECT; FROGS AND TOADS; LARVA; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; MYCOSIS; POLLUTANT;

ANIMALS; ANURA; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GLYCINE; HERBICIDES; LARVA; MYCOSES;

CANADA; NEW BRUNSWICK;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; FUNGI; LITHOBATES; RANA SYLVATICA;

EID: 80053220698     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-2319.1     Document Type: Article

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