Emerging threats and persistent conservation challenges for freshwater biodiversity

AJ Reid, AK Carlson, IF Creed, EJ Eliason… - Biological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In the 12 years since Dudgeon et al.(2006) reviewed major pressures on freshwater
ecosystems, the biodiversity crisis in the world's lakes, reservoirs, rivers, streams and …

Mitigating amphibian chytridiomycosis with bioaugmentation: characteristics of effective probiotics and strategies for their selection and use

MC Bletz, AH Loudon, MH Becker, SC Bell… - Ecology …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Probiotic therapy through bioaugmentation is a feasible disease mitigation strategy based
on growing evidence that microbes contribute to host defences of plants and animals …

Mapping species distributions with MAXENT using a geographically biased sample of presence data: a performance assessment of methods for correcting sampling …

Y Fourcade, JO Engler, D Rödder, J Secondi - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
MAXENT is now a common species distribution modeling (SDM) tool used by conservation
practitioners for predicting the distribution of a species from a set of records and …

Disentangling host, pathogen, and environmental determinants of a recently emerged wildlife disease: lessons from the first 15 years of amphibian chytridiomycosis …

TY James, LF Toledo, D Rödder… - Ecology and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The amphibian fungal disease chytridiomycosis, which affects species across all continents,
recently emerged as one of the greatest threats to biodiversity. Yet, many aspects of the …

Direct and indirect effects of climate change on amphibian populations

AR Blaustein, SC Walls, BA Bancroft, JJ Lawler… - Diversity, 2010 - mdpi.com
As part of an overall decline in biodiversity, populations of many organisms are declining
and species are being lost at unprecedented rates around the world. This includes many …

Global amphibian declines, loss of genetic diversity and fitness: a review

ME Allentoft, J O'Brien - Diversity, 2010 - mdpi.com
It is well established that a decrease in genetic variation can lead to reduced fitness and lack
of adaptability to a changing environment. Amphibians are declining on a global scale, and …

Interacting symbionts and immunity in the amphibian skin mucosome predict disease risk and probiotic effectiveness

DC Woodhams, H Brandt, S Baumgartner, J Kielgast… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Pathogenesis is strongly dependent on microbial context, but development of probiotic
therapies has neglected the impact of ecological interactions. Dynamics among microbial …

Historical amphibian declines and extinctions in Brazil linked to chytridiomycosis

T Carvalho, CG Becker… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The recent increase in emerging fungal diseases is causing unprecedented threats to
biodiversity. The origin of spread of the frog-killing fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis …

Averting a North American biodiversity crisis

TA Yap, MS Koo, RF Ambrose, DB Wake… - Science, 2015 - science.org
In the midst of an ongoing sixth mass extinction, more than 40% of all amphibians are
threatened. Chytridiomycosis, an emerging infectious disease (EID) caused by the fungal …

Mitigating amphibian disease: strategies to maintain wild populations and control chytridiomycosis

DC Woodhams, J Bosch, CJ Briggs, S Cashins… - Frontiers in …, 2011 - Springer
Background Rescuing amphibian diversity is an achievable conservation challenge.
Disease mitigation is one essential component of population management. Here we assess …