Spread of Chytridiomycosis Has Caused the Rapid Global Decline and Extinction of Frogs

By L. Skerratt, L. Berger, R. Speare, S. Cashins, K. Mcdonald, A. D. Phillott, H. Hines, Nicole Kenyon. EcoHealth, 2007

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Parasitology

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Widespread historical presence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in African pipid frogs (2010, background): “Wherever disease outbreaks occur, whether they are in Europe, the Americas or Australia, a similar epidemiological pattern of rapid spread and high rates of mortality affecting a wide range of species is found (Lips et al., 2006; Skerratt et al., 2007).”
Impacts of climate change on the amphibians and reptiles of Southeast Asia (2010, background): “…are generally either too dry or too hot for the survival of the chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis), which has been implicated for massive declines and some extinctions of amphibian species in other parts of the world (Daszak et al. 1999; Pounds et al. 2006; Skerratt et al. 2007).”
Engineering a future for amphibians under climate change (2011, background): “The amphibian chytrid fungus is also recognized as a major threat to frog populations worldwide (Skerratt et al. 2007), but the role of climate change in current chytrid related extinctions is contested (Pounds et al.”
Global Amphibian Extinction Risk Assessment for the Panzootic Chytrid Fungus (2009, background): “We suggest this is the result of limited surveillance for disease rather than the occurrence of healthy populations, as at least 42 species of the 'Top 379' (ESI2) have undergone so called 'rapid enigmatic declines' likely caused by the spread of Bd and the effect of chytridiomycosis [1,5].”
The role of biotic interactions in shaping distributions and realised assemblages of species: implications for species distribution modelling (2012, background): “In neotropical montane frogs, chytrid fungus infections have been found to explain the extinction or critical endangerment of 72 of the 85 species of the bufonid genus Antelopus (Skerratt et al., 2007).”
Alien species in fresh waters: ecological effects, interactions with other stressors, and prospects for the future (2010, background): “…the best-known is amphibian chytridiomycosis , which now appears to be responsible for breathtakingly dramatic declines of amphibians around the world (Lips et al., 2006, 2008): ''the most spectacular loss of vertebrate biodiversity due to disease in recorded history'' (Skerratt et al., 2007).”
Low impact of chytridiomycosis on frog recruitment enables persistence in refuges despite high adult mortality (2015, background): “dendrobatidis has devastated amphibians globally (Skerratt et al., 2007; Fisher et al., 2009) and is now endemic in remnant populations of many declining species (Briggs et al.”
The ecology and emergence of diseases in fresh waters (2011, background): “dendrobatidis, which accounted for 30% of disease-related publications in amphibians, exhibited a steady increase in the number and frequency of publications, paralleling the hypothesised global spread of this emerging pathogen (e.g. Lips et al., 2006; Skerratt et al., 2007).”
Ongoing invasions of the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis: a global review (2012, background): “Invasive populations of X. laevis are often implicated in having played a key role in the spread of this pathogen (e.g. Daszak et al. 2003; Duffus and Cunningham 2010; Garner et al. 2006; Peeler et al. 2011; Skerratt et al. 2007; Solis et al. 2011).”
Direct and Indirect Effects of Climate Change on Amphibian Populations (2010, background): “In amphibians, infectious diseases have been implicated in numerous population declines [7,165-167].”
Change in terrestrial human footprint drives continued loss of intact ecosystems (2020, background): “However, it is increasingly recognized that other insidious pressures, such as climate change and disease, are affecting all intact ecosystems in their biological communities.(72,73) In addition, the human footprint measures the pressure humans place on nature and not the realized impact on ecosyste”
Dynamics of an emerging disease drive large-scale amphibian population extinctions (2010, background): “The effect of chytridiomycosis on amphibians has been described as the greatest loss of vertebrate biodiversity attributable to disease in recorded history (4), and although doubts about the importance of disease in driving global amphibian declines have been expressed (5), these have largely been o”
Effects of environmental change on helminth infections in amphibians: exploring the emergence of Ribeiroia and Echinostoma infections in North America. (2009, background): “The emergence of the pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis , for example, has led to devastating population losses and extinction of amphibian populations worldwide, and is considered one of the greatest threats to global amphibian diversity (Johnson 2006 ; Skerratt et al. 2007) .”