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  • All hosts are not created equal : variation in amphibian responses to an emerging fungal pathogen and why it matters

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    Gervasi, Stephanie S.
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    Emerging infectious diseases are increasing globally and are a threat to human, wildlife, and ecosystem health. The emerging fungal pathogen, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), or amphibian chytrid fungus, is associated with worldwide amphibian population declines and extinctions. Bd has been found on every continent where amphibians exist and has been documented...
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    pathogen may have persisted endemically at low levels in some locations, including North America (Ouellet

  • Disentangling the Biotic and Abiotic Drivers of the Amphibian Disease Chytridiomycosis

    Creator:
    Bradley, Paul W.
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    The ongoing worldwide loss of biodiversity has been described as a "biodiversity crisis," "the Anthropocene defaunation," and alternatively "an extinction spasm." More recently, many scientists have come to the conclusion that we are witnesses to Earth's sixth major mass extinction event, which has the potential to fundamentally alter basic ecological...
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    University helped me dearly to complete this long path. The following are a small list of those that made

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

    Creator:
    Xie, Yang
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    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...
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    Page 4.9 Relative importance of input features from North America specific model….………….....133

  • Using DNA metabarcoding to describe biodiversity and disease dynamics

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    Massey, Aimee L.
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    Land-use change, particularly in the form of the conversion of primary forest to forest-matrix systems, alters species communities and species interactions. Describing these often complex and nuanced species responses is one of the great challenges in ecology. Another complementary challenge is finding and using the most efficient means for collecting...
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    wolves in British Columbia’s central and north coast archipelago. Journal of Biogeography 31:1867–1877