The Genome 10K Project: a way forward

KP Koepfli, B Paten… - Annu. Rev. Anim …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The Genome 10K Project was established in 2009 by a consortium of biologists and
genome scientists determined to facilitate the sequencing and analysis of the complete …

Overview of chytrid emergence and impacts on amphibians

KR Lips - … Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Chytridiomycosis is an emerging infectious disease of amphibians that affects over 700
species on all continents where amphibians occur. The amphibian–chytridiomycosis system …

Amphibian fungal panzootic causes catastrophic and ongoing loss of biodiversity

BC Scheele, F Pasmans, LF Skerratt, L Berger… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Anthropogenic trade and development have broken down dispersal barriers, facilitating the
spread of diseases that threaten Earth's biodiversity. We present a global, quantitative …

Climate change causes upslope shifts and mountaintop extirpations in a tropical bird community

BG Freeman, MN Scholer… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Montane species worldwide are shifting upslope in response to recent temperature
increases. These upslope shifts are predicted to lead to mountaintop extinctions of species …

Rapid warming is associated with population decline among terrestrial birds and mammals globally

FEB Spooner, RG Pearson… - Global change biology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Animal populations have undergone substantial declines in recent decades. These declines
have occurred alongside rapid, human‐driven environmental change, including climate …

Widespread amphibian extinctions from epidemic disease driven by global warming

J Alan Pounds, MR Bustamante, LA Coloma… - Nature, 2006 - nature.com
As the Earth warms, many species are likely to disappear, often because of changing
disease dynamics. Here we show that a recent mass extinction associated with pathogen …

[HTML][HTML] Spread of chytridiomycosis has caused the rapid global decline and extinction of frogs

LF Skerratt, L Berger, R Speare, S Cashins… - EcoHealth, 2007 - Springer
The global emergence and spread of the pathogenic, virulent, and highly transmissible
fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, resulting in the disease chytridiomycosis, has …

Global Emergence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and Amphibian Chytridiomycosis in Space, Time, and Host

MC Fisher, TWJ Garner… - Annual review of …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) is a chytrid fungus that causes chytridiomycosis in
amphibians. Only named in 1999, Bd is a proximate driver of declines in global amphibian …

Global conservation significance of Ecuador's Yasuní National Park

MS Bass, M Finer, CN Jenkins, H Kreft… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background The threats facing Ecuador's Yasuní National Park are emblematic of those
confronting the greater western Amazon, one of the world's last high-biodiversity wilderness …

The ecological performance of protected areas

KJ Gaston, SF Jackson, L Cantú-Salazar… - Annual review of …, 2008 - annualreviews.org
Protected areas are a cornerstone of local, regional, and global strategies for the
conservation of biodiversity. However, the ecological performance of these areas, both in …