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Wildlife Health in Managed Forests : Immunity and Infectious Diseases in Wild Rodents of Oregon

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Hanselmann, Rhea

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With continual and worldwide human population growth, our impact on the natural environment expands and intensifies every day. We consume natural resources, burn fossil fuels, and release toxic compounds into the air, water, and earth. We build roads that fragment the landscape, construct new settlements, and develop agricultural lands in...

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Rhea Hanselmann for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology presented on August 16, 2016
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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