Disease
ARMI conducts original research on various amphibian diseases in the lab and field. Our research has included estimating the impacts of diseases on the growth of populations, developing and testing potential treatments, affects of stressors on susceptibility to disease, how diseases are transmitted in the wild, and how to model disease distributions and spread.
ARMI disease research is conducted throughout the country, but disease ecologist Daniel Grear is based at the National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisconsin, and coordinates the health screenings and investigations of amphibian mortalities (e.g., identification, pathology) in addition to collaborating on many disease research projects.
Amphibians at our long-term monitoring sites are periodically screened for diseases and we investigate mass mortality events.
Resources
Disease - ARMI Papers & Reports
Data Release complex ecological relationships-boreal toads-disease
Data Release Effects of Snowpack, Temperature, and Disease on Demography in a Wild Population of Amphibians
Papers & Reports Context-dependent variation in persistence of host populations in the face of disease
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