Context-dependent amphibian host population response to an invading pathogen

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1795-1804

  Doddington, Benjamin J ^a   Bosch, Jaime ^b   Oliver, Joan A ^c   Grassly, Nicholas C ^a   Garcia, Gerardo ^d   Schmidt, Benedikt R ^e,f   Garner, Trenton W J ^g   Fisher, Matthew C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^c Govern Illes Balears   (Spain)

^d DURRELL WILDLIFE CONSERVATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f KARCH Switzerland   (Switzerland)

^g INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Chytridiomycosis; Epidemiology; Infectious disease; Mathematical modeling; State space time series model; Virulence

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FUNGAL DISEASE; GENOTYPE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; ISLAND; NATIVE SPECIES; NUMERICAL METHOD; PATHOGEN;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

ALYTES MULETENSIS; AMPHIBIA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; FUNGI;

EID: 84881260619     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-1270.1     Document Type: Article

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