[MAIPC] FW: [Aliens-L] Re Deadly fungus threatens Africa's frogs

[Marc Imlay]

“the decline of at least five species of frogs found only in these mountains to chytrid, which may have been exacerbated by habitat destruction, pollution and climate change resulting in weaker and more susceptible frogs”

 

So how do our amphibians do with the non-native, invasive, fungi in more pristine habitats?

 

Marc Imlay, PhD, Chair, Biological control working Group Conservation biologist, 

Park Ranger Office, Non-native Invasive Plant Control coordinator. 

 <mailto:Marc.Imlay at pgparks.com> Marc.Imlay at pgparks.com (301) 442-5657 cell 

Natural and Historical Resources Division The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission

 

 

 

 

 

From: aliens-l-request at list.auckland.ac.nz [mailto:aliens-l-request at list.auckland.ac.nz] On Behalf Of Jean-Marc Dufour-Dror (Ph.D)
Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2016 12:38 AM
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Do we know accurately what is the natural area of occurrence of Bd in Africa ? Is it restricted only to West Africa ?

 

JM

 


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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom (E.O. Wilson)

 

 

From: aliens-l-request at list.auckland.ac.nz <mailto:aliens-l-request at list.auckland.ac.nz>  [mailto:aliens-l-request at list.auckland.ac.nz] On Behalf Of Shyama Pagad
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Deadly fungus threatens Africa's frogs

 

Misty mountains, glistening forests and blue-green lakes make Cameroon, the wettest part of Africa, a tropical wonderland for amphibians. The country holds more than half the species living on the continent, including dozens of endemic frogs — an animal that has been under attack across the world by the pervasive chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis). Africa has been mostly spared from the deadly and rampant pathogen that wiped out entire species in Australia, Madagascar and Panama — until now.

 

University of Florida herpetologist David Blackburn and colleagues at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin have documented declines in frog species on Cameroon’s Mount Oku and Mount Manengouba over a span of more than 12 years. The scientists link the decline of at least five species of frogs found only in these mountains to chytrid, which may have been exacerbated by habitat destruction, pollution and climate change resulting in weaker and more susceptible frogs, said Blackburn, an associate curator of herpetology at the Florida Museum of Natural History on the UF campus....

 

http://news.ufl.edu/articles/2016/05/deadly-fungus-threatens-african-frogs.php

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Mareike Hirschfeld, David C. Blackburn, Thomas M. Doherty-Bone, LeGrand Nono Gonwouo, Sonia Ghose, Mark-Oliver Rödel. Dramatic Declines of Montane Frogs in a Central African Biodiversity Hotspot. PLOS ONE, 2016; 11 (5): e0155129 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0155129De

 

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