Climate, vegetation, introduced hosts and trade shape a global wildlife pandemic

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1753, 2013, Pages

  Liu, Xuan ^a   Rohr, Jason R ^b   Li, Yiming ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis; Emerging diseases; Global factors; Propagule pressure; Species distribution models; Trade

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CLIMATE EFFECT; DISEASE INCIDENCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EMERGENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FUNGUS; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PROPAGULE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TRADE-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS; VEGETATION COVER; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

AMPHIBIA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; FUNGI;

EID: 84872203684     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2506     Document Type: Article

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