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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Formato: | Artigo |
Idioma: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2008-03-01
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Colecção: | PLoS Biology |
Acesso em linha: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2270328?pdf=render |