How Relevant is Opportunistic Bd Sampling: AreWe Ready for the Big Picture?

摘要

Understanding the distribution of chytridiomycosis, both atglobal and local scales, is important to controlling its impacts onhost species (e.g., biocontrol or eradication) and to managing hostamphibian populations (e.g., reintroduction and habitat manage-ment). In response to this, efforts to map observations of Batra-chochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) are underway to better understandits distribution and impact on amphibian populations (e.g., www.spatialepidemiology.netBd).