A deadly fungus, and not climate change as is widely believed, is the primary culprit behind the rapid decline of frog populations in the Andes mountains, according to a new study published today in the journal Conservation ...
Ecology
Dec 13, 2013
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UCF biologist Anna Savage is obsessed with frogs and figuring out why they are dying at an unprecedented rate around the world.
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Mar 23, 2016
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The chytrid fungus is responsible for the major decline in frog populations most notably in Australia and Central America.
Plants & Animals
Jul 19, 2013
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Scientists have found that a newly identified and highly infectious tadpole disease is found in a diverse range of frog populations across the world. The discovery sheds new light on some of the threats facing fragile frog ...
Ecology
Aug 10, 2015
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(Phys.org)—A trio of zoologists with Southern Illinois University has found that behavioral phenotypes may be used to predict disease susceptibility and infectiousness. In their paper published in the journal Biology Letters, ...
For the past 40 years, a devastating fungal disease has been ravaging frog populations around the world, wiping out 90 species. Unlike the global COVID-19 pandemic, you may not even be aware of this "panzootic"—a pandemic ...
Plants & Animals
May 24, 2023
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Man-made changes to the environment may be damaging the immune systems of a species of frog whose populations have drastically declined since the 1970s, according to a new study by researchers at Case Western Reserve University ...
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Dec 16, 2015
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Smithsonian scientists have confirmed that chytridiomycosis, a rapidly spreading amphibian disease, has reached a site near Panama's Darien region. This was the last area in the entire mountainous neotropics to be free of ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 13, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Sydney researchers have identified two new parasite species causing disease among endangered Australian frogs. They say they are most likely native, overturning a commonly held view they were ...
Plants & Animals
May 25, 2011
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Scientists have been alarmed for years about a mysterious fungus that wipes out frogs around the globe -- even in wildlife sanctuaries like Yosemite and Sequoia-Kings Canyon national parks.
Plants & Animals
May 12, 2010
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