«For example, this
discovery gives us an easier way to understand how an ecosystem is
recovering after an oil spill,» said Jason Link, lead author of the study and NOAA Fisheries senior scientist for ecosystem management.
«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.