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 …

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 …

Creation of forest edges has a global impact on forest vertebrates

M Pfeifer, V Lefebvre, CA Peres, C Banks-Leite… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Forest edges influence more than half of the world's forests and contribute to worldwide
declines in biodiversity and ecosystem functions. However, predicting these declines is …

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 …

Selectivity in mammalian extinction risk and threat types: a new measure of phylogenetic signal strength in binary traits

SA Fritz, A Purvis - Conservation Biology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The strength of phylogenetic signal in extinction risk can give insight into the mechanisms
behind species' declines. Nevertheless, no existing measure of phylogenetic pattern in a …

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 …

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 …

Epidemic disease decimates amphibian abundance, species diversity, and evolutionary history in the highlands of central Panama

AJ Crawford, KR Lips… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Amphibian populations around the world are experiencing unprecedented declines
attributed to a chytrid fungal pathogen, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. Despite the severity …