Overview of chytrid emergence and impacts on amphibians

KR Lips - … Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2016‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Chytridiomycosis is an emerging infectious disease of amphibians that affects over 700
species on all continents where amphibians occur. The amphibian–chytridiomycosis system …

Neglected juveniles; a call for integrating all amphibian life stages in assessments of mitigation success (and how to do it)

SO Petrovan, BR Schmidt - Biological Conservation, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Road networks are central drivers of biodiversity loss and their impacts are rapidly
expanding. Pond-breeding amphibians are highly vulnerable to road impacts because they …

Quantitative evidence for the effects of multiple drivers on continental-scale amphibian declines

EHC Grant, DAW Miller, BR Schmidt, MJ Adams… - Scientific reports, 2016‏ - nature.com
Since amphibian declines were first proposed as a global phenomenon over a quarter
century ago, the conservation community has made little progress in halting or reversing …

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 …

Quantifying climate sensitivity and climate-driven change in North American amphibian communities

DAW Miller, EHC Grant, E Muths, SM Amburgey… - Nature …, 2018‏ - nature.com
Changing climate will impact species' ranges only when environmental variability directly
impacts the demography of local populations. However, measurement of demographic …

Spatial and temporal patterns of environmental DNA detection to inform sampling protocols in lentic and lotic systems

ME Bedwell, CS Goldberg - Ecology and evolution, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
The development of efficient sampling protocols for the capture of environmental DNA
(eDNA) could greatly help improve accuracy of occupancy monitoring for species that are …

Salamanders and other amphibians are aglow with biofluorescence

JY Lamb, MP Davis - Scientific Reports, 2020‏ - nature.com
Biofluorescence is the absorption of electromagnetic radiation (light) at one wavelength
followed by its reemission at a lower energy and longer wavelength by a living organism …

Amphibian conservation in the Anthropocene

EHC Grant, E Muths, BR Schmidt, SO Petrovan - Biological Conservation, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Research is necessary to identify patterns in nature, to understand how a system functions,
and to make predictions about the future state of an ecosystem. Applied research in …

Potential interactions among disease, pesticides, water quality and adjacent land cover in amphibian habitats in the United States

WA Battaglin, KL Smalling, C Anderson… - Science of the Total …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
To investigate interactions among disease, pesticides, water quality, and adjacent land
cover, we collected samples of water, sediment, and frog tissue from 21 sites in 7 States in …

Validating eDNA measurements of the richness and abundance of anurans at a large scale

W Li, X Hou, C Xu, M Qin, S Wang, L Wei… - Journal of Animal …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
In some situations, environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is a more accurate tool for
measuring species richness of a taxon than conventional methods. Whether this tool can …