Mitigating amphibian chytridiomycosis with bioaugmentation: characteristics of effective probiotics and strategies for their selection and use

MC Bletz, AH Loudon, MH Becker, SC Bell… - Ecology …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Probiotic therapy through bioaugmentation is a feasible disease mitigation strategy based
on growing evidence that microbes contribute to host defences of plants and animals …

The ecology and impact of chytridiomycosis: an emerging disease of amphibians

AM Kilpatrick, CJ Briggs, P Daszak - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2010 - cell.com
Emerging infectious diseases are increasingly recognized as key threats to wildlife.
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), the causative agent of chytridiomycosis, has been …

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 …

Enzootic and epizootic dynamics of the chytrid fungal pathogen of amphibians

CJ Briggs, RA Knapp… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Chytridiomycosis, the disease caused by the chytrid fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
(Bd), has contributed to amphibian population declines and extinctions worldwide. The …

Disentangling host, pathogen, and environmental determinants of a recently emerged wildlife disease: lessons from the first 15 years of amphibian chytridiomycosis …

TY James, LF Toledo, D Rödder… - Ecology and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The amphibian fungal disease chytridiomycosis, which affects species across all continents,
recently emerged as one of the greatest threats to biodiversity. Yet, many aspects of the …

The thermal mismatch hypothesis explains host susceptibility to an emerging infectious disease

JM Cohen, MD Venesky, EL Sauer, DJ Civitello… - Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Parasites typically have broader thermal limits than hosts, so large performance gaps
between pathogens and their cold‐and warm‐adapted hosts should occur at relatively warm …

[HTML][HTML] Riding the wave: reconciling the roles of disease and climate change in amphibian declines

KR Lips, J Diffendorfer, JR Mendelson III… - PLoS biology, 2008 - journals.plos.org
We review the evidence for the role of climate change in triggering disease outbreaks of
chytridiomycosis, an emerging infectious disease of amphibians. Both climatic anomalies …

[图书][B] Extinction in our times: global amphibian decline

JP Collins, ML Crump, TE Lovejoy III - 2009 - books.google.com
For over 350 million years, thousands of species of amphibians have lived on earth, but
since the 1990s they have been disappearing at an alarming rate, in many cases quite …

History and recent progress on chytridiomycosis in amphibians

L Berger, AA Roberts, J Voyles, JE Longcore… - Fungal ecology, 2016 - Elsevier
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) emerged in the 1970s in Australia and the Americas,
causing rapid and catastrophic declines and extinctions of naïve amphibian populations as it …

[图书][B] Tropical rain forest ecology, diversity, and conservation

J Ghazoul, D Sheil - 2010 - books.google.com
Rain forests represent the world's richest repository of terrestrial biodiversity, and play a
major role in regulating the global climate. They support the livelihoods of a substantial …