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 past decade has seen an explosion in the development and application of models
aimed at estimating species occurrence and occupancy dynamics while accounting for …

The current biodiversity crisis encompasses a sixth mass extinction event affecting the entire
class of amphibians. The infectious disease chytridiomycosis is considered one of the major …

Epidemiological theory generally suggests that pathogens will not cause host extinctions
because the pathogen should fade out when the host population is driven below some …

Chytridiomycosis, the disease caused by the chytrid fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
(Bd), has contributed to amphibian population declines and extinctions worldwide. The …

The emerging amphibian disease chytridiomycosis is caused by the fungal pathogen
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd). Amphibian populations and species differ in …

Environmental DNA (eDNA) methods are used to detect DNA that is shed into the aquatic
environment by cryptic or low density species. Applied in eDNA studies, occupancy models …

Infectious diseases rarely end in extinction. Yet the mechanisms that explain how epidemics
subside are difficult to pinpoint. We investigated host-pathogen interactions after the …

The use of environmental DNA (eDNA) to detect species in aquatic environments such as
ponds and streams is a powerful new technique with many benefits. However, species …

Amphibians highlight the global biodiversity crisis because∼ 40% of all amphibian species
are currently in decline. Species have disappeared even in protected habitats (eg, the …