Designing Probiotic Therapies With Broad-Spectrum Activity Against a Wildlife Pathogen [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 Host-associated microbes form an important component of immunity that protect against infection by pathogens. Treating wild individuals with these protective microbes, known as probiotics, can reduce rates of infection and disease in both wild and ...
Xavier A. Harrison +4 more
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Urbanization Facilitates Bullfrog Invasion Success and Exacerbates Native Amphibian Declines: A Natural Experiment From the COVID‐19 Lockdown [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionUrbanization and biological invasions synergistically threaten global biodiversity. The COVID‐19 lockdowns created a unique quasi‐experimental reduction in human mobility.
Jiayi Shi +9 more
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There is no evidence for a temporal link between pathogen arrival and frog extinctions in north-eastern Australia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Pathogen spread can cause population declines and even species extinctions. Nonetheless, in the absence of tailored monitoring schemes, documenting pathogen spread can be difficult.
Ben L Phillips +3 more
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Ecological Indicators, 2023 Achieving an understanding of species’ temporal and spatial abundance patterns is a prerequisite for proper conservation and management decisions. Little is known of the ecological indicators of census size or biomass of terrestrial amphibian communities
Maciej Pabijan +7 more
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Determining the effects of cattle grazing treatments on Yosemite toads (Anaxyrus [=Bufo] canorus) in montane meadows. [PDF]
, 2013 Amphibians are experiencing a precipitous global decline, and population stability on public lands with multiple uses is a key concern for managers. In the Sierra Nevada Mountains (California, USA), managers have specifically identified livestock grazing
Allen-Diaz, Barbara H +6 more
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Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management, 2023 Amphibian skin is extremely permeable to environmental contaminants and their health is inextricably linked to environmental health. Hence the objective of this study was to evaluate the level of pesticide contamination in amphibian tissues and their ...
O. Edo-Taiwo, M. S. O. Aisien
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A bibliometric-mapping approach to identifying patterns and trends in amphibian decline research
Acta Herpetologica, 2020 Amphibian decline is one of the most severe and well-documented examples of immediacy of the ongoing biodiversity crisis. In this study we analyze the scientific literature on amphibian declines with a view to identifying and analyzing emerging patterns ...
Claudio Angelini +2 more
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Frogs vs fungus: the emergence of amphibian chytridiomycosis [PDF]
Microbiology Australia, 2022 By the late 1980s, widespread dramatic declines in amphibian populations were causing alarm. The culprit was identified as Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), a chytrid fungus that infects the skin of various amphibian hosts, particularly anurans (frogs)
Anthony W. Waddle, Rebecca J. Webb
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Measuring the meltdown: drivers of global amphibian extinction and decline. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2008 Habitat loss, climate change, over-exploitation, disease and other factors have been hypothesised in the global decline of amphibian biodiversity. However, the relative importance of and synergies among different drivers are still poorly understood.
Navjot S Sodhi +7 more
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Ranavirus Amplification in Low-Diversity Amphibian Communities
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022 In an era where emerging infectious diseases are a serious threat to biodiversity, epidemiological patterns need to be identified, particularly the complex mechanisms driving the dynamics of multi-host pathogens in natural communities.
Joe-Felix Bienentreu +3 more
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