Emerging fungal threats to animal, plant and ecosystem health

MC Fisher, DA Henk, CJ Briggs, JS Brownstein… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
The past two decades have seen an increasing number of virulent infectious diseases in
natural populations and managed landscapes. In both animals and plants, an …

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 …

Persistence of environmental DNA in freshwater ecosystems

T Dejean, A Valentini, A Duparc, S Pellier-Cuit… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
The precise knowledge of species distribution is a key step in conservation biology.
However, species detection can be extremely difficult in many environments, specific life …

Species detection using environmental DNA from water samples

GF Ficetola, C Miaud, F Pompanon… - Biology …, 2008 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The assessment of species distribution is a first critical phase of biodiversity studies and is
necessary to many disciplines such as biogeography, conservation biology and ecology …

Map** the Global Emergence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, the Amphibian Chytrid Fungus

DH Olson, DM Aanensen, KL Ronnenberg, CI Powell… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The rapid worldwide emergence of the amphibian pathogen Batrachochytrium
dendrobatidis (Bd) is having a profound negative impact on biodiversity. However, global …

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 …

Amphibian chytridiomycosis: a review with focus on fungus-host interactions

P Van Rooij, A Martel, F Haesebrouck, F Pasmans - Veterinary research, 2015 - Springer
Amphibian declines and extinctions are emblematic for the current sixth mass extinction
event. Infectious drivers of these declines include the recently emerged fungal pathogens …

The complexity of amphibian population declines: understanding the role of cofactors in driving amphibian losses

AR Blaustein, BA Han, RA Relyea… - Annals of the New …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Population losses and extinctions of species are occurring at unprecedented rates, as
exemplified by declines and extinctions of amphibians worldwide. However, studies of …

Parasite spillback: a neglected concept in invasion ecology?

DW Kelly, RA Paterson, CR Townsend, R Poulin… - Ecology, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
While there is good evidence linking animal introductions to impacts on native communities
via disease emergence, our understanding of how such impacts occur is incomplete …

Prediction and validation of the potential global distribution of a problematic alien invasive species—the American bullfrog

GF Ficetola, W Thuiller, C Miaud - Diversity and distributions, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Predicting the probability of successful establishment and invasion of alien species at global
scale, by matching climatic and land use data, is a priority for the risk assessment. Both large …