Ross A. Alford

TL;DR: An outbreak of chytridiomycosis in Panama is described and it is argued that this infectious disease has played an important role in amphibian population declines and the high virulence and large number of potential hosts of this emerging infectious disease threaten global amphibian diversity.

TL;DR: The results suggest that most amphibian populations should decrease more often than they increase, due to highly variable recruitment and less variable adult mortality.

TL;DR: It is shown that Bd infection is associated with pathophysiological changes that lead to mortality in green tree frogs (Litoria caerulea), and in diseased individuals, electrolyte transport across the epidermis was inhibited by >50, plasma sodium and potassium concentrations were respectively reduced by ~20% and ~50%, and asystolic cardiac arrest resulted in death.

TL;DR: It is found that thermal environment affects the progress of the disease, and that housing frogs Litoria chloris at an environmental temperature of 37 degrees C for less than 16 h can clear them of the chytrid pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis.

TL;DR: This experiment demonstrates that differentiation rate responds to food availability throughout the larval period in a manner consistent with the predictions of the Wilbur-Collins model.