Can I use this leaf litter?

[Leefrogs]

seriously kurt, I wouldn't say it if there wasn't a map. Granted it's from 2007, but valid, Go2= frogmatters.world press.com by nature mag. Alaska is in the red which means confirmed chytrid deaths.

[Molch]

here is that map:
Chytrid map, courtesy Nature magazine « Frog Matters

all it says is that chytrid fungus was detected and "associated with mortalities"; it doesn't say anything about mass deaths.

There are amphibian populations in southeast Alaska; that's probably where chytrid was found.

[tjtreefrog]

Chytrid has almost wiped-out the Boreal toad in Alaska. http://www.nps.gov/gaar/naturescienc...n-declines.htm

[Molch]

I know of the decine of the boreal toad, but I don't think it has been conclusively attributed to Chytrid. A quote from the above article:

"Along the coast of Alaska, boreal toads—Alaska’s only toad species—have gone from abundant to almost non-existent in less than ten years. The cause remains uncertain, but biologists have found boreal toads in southeast Alaska and in other states that died from the chytrid fungus."

There have been so many drastic changes in Alaska ecosystems due to climate change, and amphibians are very poorly studied up here. Chytrid may have only been a contributer with other causes more pronounced.