Chytridiomycosis is an emerging infectious disease of amphibians that affects over 700
species on all continents where amphibians occur. The amphibian–chytridiomycosis system …

Numerous factors are contributing to the loss of biodiversity. These include complex effects
of multiple abiotic and biotic stressors that may drive population losses. These losses are …

The dilution effect predicts increasing biodiversity to reduce the risk of infection, but the
generality of this effect remains unresolved. Because biodiversity loss generates predictable …

Theory predicts that increasing biodiversity will dilute the risk of infectious diseases under
certain conditions and will amplify disease risk under others. Yet, few empirical studies …

Infectious disease risk is often influenced by host diversity, but the causes are unresolved.
Changes in diversity are associated with changes in community structure, particularly during …

Individual hosts differ extensively in their competence for parasites, but traditional research
has discounted this variation, partly because modeling such heterogeneity is difficult. This …

Amphibians suffer from large‐scale population declines globally, and emerging infectious
diseases contribute heavily to these declines. Amphibian Perkinsea (Pr) is a worldwide …

Hosts and parasites are embedded in communities where species richness and composition
can influence disease outcomes (diversity–disease relationships). The direction and …

Pathogen-induced population declines and extinction events have been recognized as main
threats to amphibian species around the globe. However, the ecological drivers underlying …

Wildlife disease dynamics are strongly influenced by the structure of host communities and
their symbiotic microbiota. Conspicuous amphibian declines associated with the waterborne …