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      Ecology: global warming and amphibian losses.

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      Animals, Central America, Costa Rica, epidemiology, Ecology, Ecosystem, Extinction, Biological, Fungi, physiology, Greenhouse Effect, Models, Biological, Mycoses, veterinary, Population Density, Queensland, Ranidae, abnormalities, microbiology, Reproducibility of Results, South America, Stress, Physiological, physiopathology, Temperature, Tropical Climate

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          Is global warming contributing to amphibian declines and extinctions by promoting outbreaks of the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis? Analysing patterns from the American tropics, Pounds et al. envisage a process in which a single warm year triggers die-offs in a particular area (for instance, 1987 in the case of Monteverde, Costa Rica). However, we show here that populations of two frog species in the Australian tropics experienced increasing developmental instability, which is evidence of stress, at least two years before they showed chytrid-related declines. Because the working model of Pounds et al. is incomplete, their test of the climate-linked epidemic hypothesis could be inconclusive.

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