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Project

Mitigating an amphibian pandemic by embedding biodiversity conservation in contaminant exposed agricultural landscapes

Urgent measures are necessary to mitigate the impact of the fungal amphibian skin disease chytridiomycosis, which is emblematic for global disease driven loss of biodiversity. Here we aim at steering chytrid epidemiology towards a state of host-pathogen co-existence instead of epidemics by exploiting micropredator community dynamics in a context of aquatic eutrophication and contamination.

Date:1 Jan 2016 →  31 Oct 2022
Keywords:agriculture, contaminants, mitigation, chytridiomycosis, Biodiversity, amphibians
Disciplines:Pharmacology, Systems biology, Microbiology, Animal biology, Medicinal products, Other environmental sciences, Biomarker discovery and evaluation, Drug discovery and development, Immunology, Laboratory medicine, Veterinary medicine, Pharmaceutics, Other agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Other veterinary sciences, Toxicology and toxinology, Pharmacognosy and phytochemistry, Pharmacotherapy, Environmental science and management, Other pharmaceutical sciences, Ecology