The impacts of water quality on the amphibian chytrid fungal pathogen: A systematic review

A Chew, M West, L Berger… - Environmental …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The pathogenic fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis has caused declines of amphibians
worldwide. Yet our understanding of how water quality influences fungal pathogenicity is …

The effect of salt dosing for chytrid mitigation on tadpoles of a threatened frog, Litoria aurea

A Callen, L Pizzatto, MP Stockwell, S Clulow… - Journal of Comparative …, 2023 - Springer
The novel fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (chytrid) is one of the greatest
threats to amphibians worldwide. Small increases in water salinity (up to ca. 4 ppt) have …

Age structure of amphibian populations with endemic chytridiomycosis, across climatic regions with markedly different infection risk

A Turner, G Heard, A Hall, S Wassens - Ecology and Evolution, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Threatening processes, such as disease, can drive major changes in population
demographics of the host. Chytridiomycosis, caused by the fungal pathogen …

Age truncation due to disease shrinks metapopulation viability for amphibians

GW Heard, MP Scroggie, M Hollanders… - Journal of Animal …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Metapopulations often exist in a fragile balance between local extinctions and (re)
colonisations, in which case emerging threats that alter species vital rates may drastically …

Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in the Arid and Thermally Extreme Sonoran Desert

SA Roth, KL Griffis-Kyle, MA Barnes - EcoHealth, 2023 - Springer
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), the causative agent of the devastating global
amphibian disease chytridiomycosis, was not projected to threaten amphibians in hot and …

Stochastic metapopulation dynamics of a threatened amphibian to improve water delivery

R Mathwin, S Wassens, MS Gibbs, J Young, Q Ye… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Water extraction and climate change are altering the availability of surface water globally,
thereby contributing to amphibian population declines. The managed delivery of water to …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular systematic analysis demonstrates that the threatened southern bell frog, Litoria raniformis (Anura: Pelodryadidae) of eastern Australia, comprises …

J Vörös, S Wassens, L Price, D Hunter, S Myers… - Zootaxa, 2023 - mapress.com
In south-eastern Australia, the pelodryadid Litoria aurea Group (sensu Tyler & Davies 1978)
comprises three species: Litoria aurea (Lesson, 1829), Litoria raniformis (Keferstein, 1867) …

Environmental predictors of disease risk for Litoria raniformis populations in south-eastern Australia

A Turner - 2022 - researchoutput.csu.edu.au
Chytridiomycosis is an amphibian disease which has led to population declines globally. In
this thesis I present a literature review of temperature as a driver of chytrid infection …

[PDF][PDF] Timing of environmental water delivery influences extinction risk for chytrid infected amphibian populations

A Turner - researchoutput.csu.edu.au
Timing of environmental water delivery influences extinction risk for chytrid infected amphibian
populations Page 1 Timing of environmental water delivery influences extinction risk for chytrid …