Infectious disease as a driver of declines and extinctions
Infectious disease is an important driver of extinctions and population declines. With a few exceptions, such as the fungal disease chytridiomycosis in frogs, disease is probably underestimated as a cause of both local and global extinction because it often co-occurs with other more overt drivers of...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2024-01-01
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Series: | Cambridge Prisms: Extinction |
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Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2755095824000019/type/journal_article |