Dynamics of an emerging disease drive large-scale amphibian population extinctions

By V. Vredenburg, R. Knapp, Tate S Tunstall, Cheryl J. Briggs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2010

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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A Synthesis of Evidence of Drivers of Amphibian Declines (2020, background): “Since overcoming these early challenges, current evidence indicates that declines are real and that they are ongoing and catastrophic in some locations (e.g., Mahony 1996; Houlahan et al. 2000; Green 2003; Beebee and Griffiths 2005; Vredenburg et al. 2010).”
A century of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Illinois amphibians (1888 1989) (2015, background): “Population declines and extirpations have been described from areas like the Sierra Nevada of California (Vredenburg et al., 2010), the Cordillera Central of Central America (Cheng et al., 2011; Lips et al., 2006, 2008), and the Andes of South America (Catenazzi et al., 2011).”
Disease dynamics vary spatially and temporally in a North American amphibian (2011, background): “With the exception of a few well-studied regions in the Sierra Nevada mountains (Briggs et al., 2010; Vredenburg et al., 2010), studies of local climatic determinants of chytridiomycosis in North America are patchy and conflicting.”
Immune Suppression by Neonicotinoid Insecticides at the Root of Global Wildlife Declines (2013, background): “In 2012, UK researchers confirmed that when colonies of B. terrestris were exposed to field-realistic levels of imidacloprid, there was a significantly reduced growth rate and an 85% reduction in new queens when compared with control colonies.25 Global amphibian declines in relation to infection In ”
Rapid enigmatic decline drives the fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra) to the edge of extinction in the Netherlands (2013, background): “…we describe in this report strongly resembles the population crashes after entry and subsequent build-up of B. dendrobatidis infections in Australia, Central America, the Sierra Nevada (USA) and southern Europe (Berger et al., 1998; Bosch et al., 2001; Lips et al., 2006; Vredenburg et al., 2010).”
Low impact of chytridiomycosis on frog recruitment enables persistence in refuges despite high adult mortality (2015, result): “The dominance of a single two year old age cohort in both years indicates that the populations experience Bd-induced die-offs during the breeding season, similar to those described following Bd emergence in naïve populations (e.g. Lips et al., 2006; Vredenburg et al., 2010).”
Non-native and native organisms moving into high elevation and high latitude ecosystems in an era of climate change: new challenges for ecology and conservation (2016, background): “Bd is routinely found at high elevations from the Rocky Mountains (Pilliod et al. 2010), to the Sierra Nevadas (Vredenburg et al. 2010), the Andes (Seimon et al. 2007) and at high latitudes (e.g., Northwest Territory, Canada, Schock et al. 2010).”
Patterns of widespread decline in North American bumble bees (2011, positive): “These observations are reminiscent of reports of other introduced fungal pathogens that pose widespread threats to some taxa, including frogs (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) and bats (Geomyces destructans) (27, 28), but confirming a direct link between N.”