Publications
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ecology: the proximate cause of frog declines? | pounds et al. argue that global warming contributes to amphibian declines by encouraging outbreaks of the chytrid fungus batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. although our findings agree with the climate-linked epidemic hypothesis, this pathogen is probably not the only proximate factor in such cases: in the trasimeno lake area of umbria in central italy, for example, the water frog rana lessonae first declined in the late 1990s, yet chytridiomycosis was not observed until 2003 (refs 5, 6). here we sh ... | 2007 | 17538572 |