Varying Responses of Northeastern North American Amphibians to the Chytrid PathogenBatrachochytrium dendrobatidis

Conservation Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 135-141

  Gahl, Megan K ^a   Longcore, Joyce E ^b   Houlahan, Jeff E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian declines; Anaxyrus; Chytrid fungus; Disease vector; Lithobates

Indexed keywords

DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE VECTOR; FROG; FUNGAL DISEASE; LABORATORY METHOD; MORTALITY; POPULATION DECLINE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; MYCOSIS; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RANIDAE;

ANIMALS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; LARVA; MYCOSES; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RANIDAE;

NORTH AMERICA;

AMBYSTOMA; AMBYSTOMA LATERALE; AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BUFO AMERICANUS; FELIDAE; FUNGI; LITHOBATES; METAMORPHA; PSEUDACRIS CRUCIFER; RANA CATESBEIANA; RANA CLAMITANS; RANA PIPIENS; RANA SYLVATICA; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 84856340164     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01801.x     Document Type: Article

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