Disease in a dynamic landscape: Host behavior and wildfire reduce amphibian chytrid infection

Biological Conservation

Volumn 157, Issue , 2013, Pages 293-299

  Hossack, Blake R ^a,b   Lowe, Winsor H ^c   Ware, Joy L ^d   Corn, Paul Stephen ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian decline; Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis; Disturbance; Fire; Host pathogen interaction; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FUNGAL DISEASE; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT USE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INHIBITION; LIFE HISTORY; PERSISTENCE; POPULATION DECLINE; REFUGE; THERMOREGULATION; TOAD; WILDFIRE;

GLACIER NATIONAL PARK [MONTANA]; MONTANA; UNITED STATES;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; BOREAS; BUFO BOREAS BOREAS; FUNGI;

EID: 84870342035     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.09.013     Document Type: Article

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