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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:16 Oct 2021 →  15 Mar 2022
Keywords:mitigation, chytridiomycosis, Biodiversity, amphibians, contaminant, agriculture
Disciplines:Animal ecology