Overview of chytrid emergence and impacts on amphibians

KR Lips - … Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Chytridiomycosis is an emerging infectious disease of amphibians that affects over 700
species on all continents where amphibians occur. The amphibian–chytridiomycosis system …

The amphibian decline crisis: a watershed for conservation biology?

TJC Beebee, RA Griffiths - Biological conservation, 2005 - Elsevier
Amphibians have declined dramatically in many areas of the world. These declines seem to
have worsened over the past 25 years and amphibians are now more threatened than either …

Amphibian fungal panzootic causes catastrophic and ongoing loss of biodiversity

BC Scheele, F Pasmans, LF Skerratt, L Berger… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Anthropogenic trade and development have broken down dispersal barriers, facilitating the
spread of diseases that threaten Earth's biodiversity. We present a global, quantitative …

Tropical snake diversity collapses after widespread amphibian loss

EF Zipkin, GV DiRenzo, JM Ray, S Rossman, KR Lips - Science, 2020 - science.org
Biodiversity is declining at unprecedented rates worldwide. Yet cascading effects of
biodiversity loss on other taxa are largely unknown because baseline data are often …

Status and trends of amphibian declines and extinctions worldwide

SN Stuart, JS Chanson, NA Cox, BE Young… - Science, 2004 - science.org
The first global assessment of amphibians provides new context for the well-publicized
phenomenon of amphibian declines. Amphibians are more threatened and are declining …

Global amphibian declines: sorting the hypotheses

JP Collins, A Storfer - Diversity and distributions, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Reports of malformed amphibians and global amphibian declines have led to public
concern, particularly because amphibians are thought to be indicator species of overall …

Emerging infectious disease and the loss of biodiversity in a Neotropical amphibian community

KR Lips, F Brem, R Brenes, JD Reeve… - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
Pathogens rarely cause extinctions of host species, and there are few examples of a
pathogen changing species richness and diversity of an ecological community by causing …

Enzootic and epizootic dynamics of the chytrid fungal pathogen of amphibians

CJ Briggs, RA Knapp… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Chytridiomycosis, the disease caused by the chytrid fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
(Bd), has contributed to amphibian population declines and extinctions worldwide. The …

Habitat split and the global decline of amphibians

CG Becker, CR Fonseca, CFB Haddad, RF Batista… - Science, 2007 - science.org
The worldwide decline in amphibians has been attributed to several causes, especially
habitat loss and disease. We identified a further factor, namely “habitat split”—defined as …

[图书][B] Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and human wellbeing: an ecological and economic perspective

S Naeem, DE Bunker, A Hector, M Loreau, C Perrings - 2009 - books.google.com
How will biodiversity loss affect ecosystem functioning, ecosystem services, and human well-
being? In an age of accelerating biodiversity loss, this timely and critical volume summarizes …