Why Does Amphibian Chytrid (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) Not Occur Everywhere? An Exploratory Study in Missouri Ponds

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Strauss, Alex ^a,b   Smith, Kevin G ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL A; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HABITAT; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PH; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POND; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; INVERTEBRATES; MISSOURI; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYCOSES; PONDS; RANIDAE;

EID: 84884570606     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076035     Document Type: Article

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