The effects of a fungicide and chytrid fungus on anuran larvae in aquatic mesocosms

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 22, Issue 17, 2015, Pages 12929-12940

  Hanlon, Shane M ^a   Lynch, Kyle J ^a   Kerby, Jacob L ^b   Parris, Matthew J ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

^b University of South Dakota   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Community; Conservation; Toxins; Trophic cascades; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AQUATIC COMMUNITY; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; FROG; FUNGAL DISEASE; FUNGICIDE; FUNGUS; LARVA; MESOCOSM; MORTALITY RISK; PATHOGEN; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; TOXIN; ZOOPLANKTON;

AMPHIBIA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; COPEPODA; FUNGI; LITHOBATES; OSTRACODA; RANA SPHENOCEPHALA;

FUNGICIDE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMAL; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; DRUG EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANA PIPIENS; TOXICITY; WATER POLLUTANT; WETLAND; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FEMALE; FUNGICIDES, INDUSTRIAL; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; RANA PIPIENS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WETLANDS; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 84940447304     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-015-4566-8     Document Type: Article

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