Temporal Variation in Infection Prevalence by the Amphibian Chytrid Fungus in Three Species of Frogs at La Selva, Costa Rica

Biotropica

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 779-784

  Whitfield, Steven M ^b   Kerby, Jacob ^b   Gentry, Lydia R ^c   Donnelly, Maureen A ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of South Dakota   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian decline; Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis; Craugastor bransfordii; Emerging infectious diseases; Lowland rain forests; Oophaga pumilio; Rhaebo haematiticus; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; EXTINCTION; FROG; FUNGAL DISEASE; FUNGUS; GROWTH RESPONSE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; PATHOGEN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DECLINE; RAINFOREST; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

COSTA RICA; HEREDIA; LA SELVA;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; FUNGI;

EID: 84868637886     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2012.00872.x     Document Type: Article

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