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Riding the Wave: Reconciling the Roles of Disease and Climate Change in Amphibian Declines

We review the evidence for the role of climate change in triggering disease outbreaks of chytridiomycosis, an emerging infectious disease of amphibians. Both climatic anomalies and disease-related extirpations are recent phenomena, and effects of both are especially noticeable at high elevations in...

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Autores principales: Lips, Karen R, Diffendorfer, Jay, Mendelson, Joseph R, Sears, Michael W
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2270328/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18366257
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060072