Sentences with phrase «outbreaks of amphibian»

Not exact matches

One strategy is to figure out the environmental weaknesses of the fungi, and identify the areas where amphibians could survive an outbreak.

«In this study, we made the exciting discovery that a handful of amphibian species — some of which were thought to have been completely wiped out — are persisting, and may even be recovering, after lethal disease outbreaks,» study lead author Jamie Voyles, a disease ecologist at the University of Nevada — Reno, said in a statement.

While no one argues that climate change is, and will continue to affect amphibians, the claim published by Pounds et al. stating that climate change directly caused the chytrid outbreaks has now been dismissed by four major papers, by three unrelated sets of investigators.

But I'm guessing amphibians won't be the only species suffering from outbreaks of dangerous pathogens and fungi as the climate warms.

Is this frog revenge?There's no evidence of a coordinated uprising, but this is the first known multistate outbreak spread by amphibians.