Fungus Identified in Frog Population Decline

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From NPR'S Morning Edition, January 12, 2006 · A study in the journal

Nature has linked widespread frog extinctions in Central and South

America to a fungal epidemic triggered by increasing temperatures. Frog

species began disappearing from the region in the late 1980s.

Here's a link to the NPR audio story: Fungus Identified in Frog Population

Decline

Here's a link to the Nature story: Dead frogs linked to global warming -

Species are vanishing as deadly fungus flourishes in changing climate.

The fungus is Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, a chytrid

fungus; the disease is causes is Amphibian chytridiomycosis.