Chytridiomycosis in Wild Frogs from Southern Costa Rica

By K. Lips, D. Green, R. Papendick. 2003

137 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Social Psychology

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. J. Hero
2. K. Kriger
3. S. Ron
4. R. Alford
5. R. Puschendorf
6. Gerardo Chaves
7. Federico Bolaños
8. John W. Taylor

In Global and Planetary Change

1. J. Hero
2. K. Kriger
3. S. Ron
4. Joseph Mendelson
5. K. Lips
6. R. Puschendorf
7. Federico Bolaños
8. Gerardo Chaves

In Social Psychology

1. S. Ron
2. J. Hero
3. K. Kriger
4. R. Puschendorf
5. R. Alford
6. Cheryl J. Briggs
7. Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues
8. K. Lips

Citations in the corpus

• Ecology of Chytridiomycosis in Rainforest Stream Frog Assemblages of Tropical Queensland (2005, background): “Sick and dying frogs have been found with chytridiomycosis during regular monitoring surveys at times of mass mortality (Berger et al. 1998, 1999, 2004; Lips et al. 2003a, 2004).”
• The amphibian chytrid fungus along an altitudinal transect before the first reported declines in Costa Rica (2006, background): “These striking population declines in Costa Rica have been linked to climate change (Pounds and Crump, 1994; Pounds et al., 1997; Pounds et al., 1999), and to outbreaks of the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis ( Lips et al., 2003b ), a recently discovered species that grows on the epider”
• Distribution models for the amphibian chytrid Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Costa Rica: proposing climatic refuges as a conservation tool (2009, methodology): “Species records and environmental layers We used information about the occurrence of B. dendrobatidis in Costa Rica based on literature records (Lips et al ., 2003; Puschendorf, 2003; Pounds et al ., 2006; Puschendorf & Bolaños, 2006; Puschendorf et al ., 2006a) and new histological data.”
• The chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis is non‐randomly distributed across amphibian breeding habitats (2007, background): “However, our results and those of others (Waldman, 2001; Lips et al., 2003b; Cummer et al., 2005; Kriger & Hero, 2006) demonstrate that it is indeed possible for amphibians breeding away from permanent water to become infected with B. dendrobatidis.”
• Amphibian Chytrid Fungus Broadly Distributed in the Brazilian Atlantic Rain Forest (2006, result): “Our data are comparable to those of Lips et al. (2003), who performed a nonopportunistic histological screening of Costa Rican amphibian species for which there were records of dead or dying individuals in the field, including sites with reports of population loss.”
• Experimental Exposures of Boreal Toads (Bufo boreas) to a Pathogenic Chytrid Fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) (2006, unknown): “A recently discovered chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis), initially isolated from captive amphibians suffering from a mycotic skin disease (Longcore et al., 1999; Nichols et al., 1998; Pessier et al., 1999), has now been linked to mass mortalities of wild amphibian populations in many a”
• Amphibian population declines in montane southern Mexico: resurveys of historical localities (2004, background): “Some amphibian declines in Latin America (e.g., Costa Rica: Lips et al., 2003a; Panama: Berger et al., 1998; Lips, 1999; Ecuador: Ron et al., 2003) have been attributed to infection by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, an amphibian-specific aquatic, chytrid fungus (Longcore et al., 1999).”
• Predicting the Distribution of the Amphibian Pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in the New World 1 (2005, background): “…0.619 Precipitation of coldest quarter 0.632 0.465 −0.386 Eigenvalue 8.893 3.106 1.032 Percentage of variance explained 59.28 20.70 6.88 in Central America showed declines in 96 of 166 populations (Lips et al. 2003b) and B. dendrobatidis was present during the declines in at least two of the sites.”
• The Novel and Endemic Pathogen Hypotheses: Competing Explanations for the Origin of Emerging Infectious Diseases of Wildlife (2005, background): “1a), has been associated with numerous mass mortality events, and is considered the proximal cause of numerous amphibian population declines and species extinctions, primarily in montane areas (e.g., Berger et al. 1998; Lips et al. 2003; Muths et al. 2003).”
• Large‐scale seasonal variation in the prevalence and severity of chytridiomycosis (2006, background): “Fungal strains collected from infected amphibians in disparate regions of the world show low genetic variation (Morehouse et al., 2003), and several studies point toward a sudden appearance of B. dendrobatidis in Australia (Aplin & Kirkpatrick, 2000), Central America ( Lips, Green & Papendick, 2003;”
• Catastrophic Population Declines and Extinctions in Neotropical Harlequin Frogs (Bufonidae: Atelopus) 1 (2005, background): “(e.g., Lips et al. 2003a, Ron et al. 2003).”