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Factors limiting the recovery of boreal toads (Bufo b. boreas)

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Carey, Cynthia, Corn, Paul Stephen, Jones, Mark S, Livo, Lauren J, Muths, Erin, and Loeffler, Charles W, Factors limiting the recovery of boreal toads (Bufo b. boreas): .

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Boreal toads (Bufo b. boreas) are widely distributed over much of the mountainous western United States. Populations in the Southern Rocky Mountains suffered extensive declines in the late 1970s through early 1980s (Carey, 1993). At the time, these mass mortalities were thought to be associated with a bacterial infection (Carey, 1993). Although the few populations that survived the mass die-offs were not systematically monitored until at least 1993, no mass mortalities had been observed until 1996 when die-offs were observed. A mycotic skin infection associated with a chytrid fungus is now causing mortality of toads in at least two of the populations (M.S. Jones and D.E. Green, unpublished data; Muths et al., 2003). Boreal toads are [...]

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