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Complexity in host-pathogen dynamics : dispersal uncertainties, metapopulation persistence and the role of a changing climate

Creator:

Xie, Yang

Abstract:

Emerging infectious diseases impact both human and wildlife populations. Infectious agents, in particular the aquatic fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (chytrid), have an influential role in driving global amphibian population declines. The emergence of the chytrid fungus has aspects of both geographic spread as well as climate shifts altering environmental conditions and...

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Full Text:

. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 30: 133-165. Allan BF, Keesing F and RS Ostfeld. 2003. Effect