Additive threats from pathogens, climate and land-use change for global amphibian diversity

Nature

Volumn 480, Issue 7378, 2011, Pages 516-519

  Hof, Christian ^a,b   Araújo, Miguel B ^a,b,c   Jetz, Walter ^d   Rahbek, Carsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FUNGAL DISEASE; LAND USE CHANGE; PATHOGEN; POPULATION DECLINE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHYTRIDIOMYCOSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FROG; LAND USE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALAMANDER; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; CLIMATE CHANGE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYCOSES; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AFRICA; ANDES; SOUTH AMERICA;

AMPHIBIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84255211855     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10650     Document Type: Article

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