@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref18773, author = {Andrew J. Crawford and Karen R. Lips and Eldredge Bermingham}, title = {Epidemic disease decimates amphibian abundance, species diversity, and evolutionary history in the highlands of central Panama.}, year = {2010}, keywords = {}, doi = {}, url = {}, pmid = {}, journal = {}, volume = {}, number = {}, pages = {}, abstract = {Amphibian populations around the globe are experiencing unprecedented declines often attributed to the chytrid fungal pathogen. We present a community-level assessment of amphibian evolutionary diversity lost to epidemic disease on the basis of field surveys and DNA barcode data. These techniques were used to measure the change in diversity before and after disease decimated the amphibian fauna of central Panama, and found that 41% of amphibian species diversity was lost, including five undescribed species. A DNA-based community phylogeny for all amphibian taxa observed before the decline showed that disease extirpated 32% of total phylogenetic diversity of amphibians. Because the direction and spread of disease was predicted, we were able to follow the impact and phylogenetic pattern of evolutionary loss from an entire community following epidemic disease and mass extirpation.} }

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