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Creator:: Negru, Delia
Abstract:: The current rate of global biodiversity loss and extinctions is unparalleled and a major concern. Freshwater organisms are facing particularly rapid rates of biodiversity loss. Amphibians, which require an aquatic environment for part of their life cycle, are one of the most vulnerable vertebrate groups. Amphibians are experiencing population declines,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Parkes H. 1998. Chytridiomycosis causes amphibian mortality associated with population declines in

Creator:: Buck, Julia C.
Abstract:: The causes of the global biodiversity crisis are varied and complex. Anthropogenic threats may act in isolation, or interact additively or synergistically with each other or with natural stressors to affect sensitive taxa. The recent emergence of many infectious diseases in wildlife has brought attention to the role of disease...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: susceptible to pathogens (Luebke et al. 1997, Carey et al. 1999, Lafferty and Gerber 2002, Lafferty and Holt

Creator:: Chestnut, Tara
Abstract:: Biodiversity losses in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine systems are accelerating at a global scale and the most threatened vertebrate taxa are those associated with freshwater habitats. The causes of biodiversity losses are often complex and include synergistic effects of natural and human-induced stressors, such as habitat loss and fragmentation, urbanization,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : _____________________________________________________________________ Andrew R. Blaustein Deanna H. Olson Biodiversity losses in terrestrial, freshwater

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