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 …

City sicker? A meta‐analysis of wildlife health and urbanization

MH Murray, CA Sánchez, DJ Becker… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Urban development can alter resource availability, land use, and community composition,
which, in turn, influences wildlife health. Generalizable relationships between wildlife health …

Additive threats from pathogens, climate and land-use change for global amphibian diversity

C Hof, MB Araújo, W Jetz, C Rahbek - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Amphibian population declines far exceed those of other vertebrate groups, with 30% of all
species listed as threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature,,. The …

An emerging disease causes regional population collapse of a common North American bat species

WF Frick, JF Pollock, AC Hicks, KE Langwig… - Science, 2010 - science.org
White-nose syndrome (WNS) is an emerging disease affecting hibernating bats in eastern
North America that causes mass mortality and precipitous population declines in winter …

Disease alters macroecological patterns of N orth A merican bats

WF Frick, SJ Puechmaille, JR Hoyt… - Global Ecology and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Aim We investigated the effects of disease on the local abundances and distributions of
species at continental scales by examining the impacts of white‐nose syndrome, an …

Sociality, density‐dependence and microclimates determine the persistence of populations suffering from a novel fungal disease, white‐nose syndrome

KE Langwig, WF Frick, JT Bried, AC Hicks… - Ecology …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Disease has caused striking declines in wildlife and threatens numerous species with
extinction. Theory suggests that the ecology and density‐dependence of transmission …

The amphibian skin‐associated microbiome across species, space and life history stages

JG Kueneman, LW Parfrey, DC Woodhams… - Molecular …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Skin‐associated bacteria of amphibians are increasingly recognized for their role in defence
against pathogens, yet we have little understanding of their basic ecology. Here, we use …

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 …

Direct and indirect effects of climate change on amphibian populations

AR Blaustein, SC Walls, BA Bancroft, JJ Lawler… - Diversity, 2010 - mdpi.com
As part of an overall decline in biodiversity, populations of many organisms are declining
and species are being lost at unprecedented rates around the world. This includes many …

The pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis disturbs the frog skin microbiome during a natural epidemic and experimental infection

AJ Jani, CJ Briggs - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Symbiotic microbial communities may interact with infectious pathogens sharing a common
host. The microbiome may limit pathogen infection or, conversely, an invading pathogen can …