Collapse of amphibian communities due to an introduced ranavirus

Current Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 2586-2591

  Price, Stephen J ^a,b   Garner, Trenton W J ^a   Nichols, Richard A ^b   Balloux, François ^c   Ayres, César ^d   Mora Cabello De Alba, Amparo ^e   Bosch, Jaime ^f  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Asociación Herpetológica Española AHE   (Spain)

^e Parque Nacional Picos de Europa   (Spain)

^f MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; RANAVIRUS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RANAVIRUS; VIROLOGY;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RANAVIRUS;

EID: 84913550596     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: 18790445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.09.028     Document Type: Article

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