Deadly Fungus, Not Climate Change, Killing Frogs in Andes

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Yahoo News (USA) December 13th, 2013 08:30 AM: Deadly Fungus, Not Climate Change, Killing Frogs in Andes

Warming of the climate isn't directly causing the decline in frog populations in the Andes mountains. Instead, the frogs are falling victim to a killer fungus that is decimating amphibian species worldwide: Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, or chytrid fungus. But the warming trend has extended the range where chytrid fungus can thrive, leading to widespread infections of the disease known as chytridiomycosis. Chytrid fungus outbreaks make bubonic plague look like a slight cough," study researcher Vance Vredenburg, associate professor of biology at San Francisco State University, said in a statement.


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