Tropical forests in the Anthropocene

Y Malhi, TA Gardner, GR Goldsmith… - Annual Review of …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
The Anthropocene is characterized as an epoch when human influence has begun to
fundamentally alter many aspects of the Earth system and many of the planet's biomes …

State of the world's amphibians

A Catenazzi - Annual review of environment and resources, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The Anthropocene is characterized by a widespread biodiversity crisis that is rivaling
prehistoric mass extinctions. Amphibians are the most threatened class of vertebrates. In …

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 …

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

E Kolbert - Henry Holt and Company, 2014 - books.google.com
Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of
life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently …

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 …

Coincident mass extirpation of neotropical amphibians with the emergence of the infectious fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

TL Cheng, SM Rovito, DB Wake… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Amphibians highlight the global biodiversity crisis because∼ 40% of all amphibian species
are currently in decline. Species have disappeared even in protected habitats (eg, the …

Impacts of anthropogenic climate change on tropical montane forests: an appraisal of the evidence

EO Mata‐Guel, MCK Soh, CW Butler… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In spite of their small global area and restricted distributions, tropical montane forests (TMFs)
are biodiversity hotspots and important ecosystem services providers, but are also highly …

[图书][B] A sexta extinção

E Kolbert - 2022 - books.google.com
Leitura recomendada por Yuval Noah Harari, Al Gore, Bill Gates e Barack Obama. Prémio
Pulitzer Finalista do National Book Critics Award Leitura recomendada por Yuval Noah …

Long‐term endemism of two highly divergent lineages of the amphibian‐killing fungus in the A tlantic F orest of B razil

D Rodriguez, CG Becker, NC Pupin… - Molecular …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The recent global spread of the amphibian‐killing fungus [B atrachochytrium dendrobatidis
(Bd)] has been closely tied to anthropogenic activities; however, regional patterns of spread …

A century of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Illinois amphibians (1888–1989)

BL Talley, CR Muletz, VT Vredenburg… - Biological …, 2015 - Elsevier
The fungal pathogen, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), causes the disease
chytridiomycosis in amphibians and is responsible for the worst epizootics in vertebrate …