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Cool article re: amphibian decline, new hope

Martin21114

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Man that sucks, I thought they were really on to something there. So what's the best way to help, make a habitat and don't pollute?
 

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Yeah, it doesn't help much. Chytrid likes moisture, not open water per se, so it does quite well in soil. Likewise, Daphnia feed on particles in the water, NOT on fungal hyphae growing in the skin of an amphibian [particularly one on land], so no help there either. Going a bit further...chytrid likes it somewhat cool. Shallow pools suitable for copepods probably warm up considerably and limit both the ability of chytrid to grow, and of amphibians to suffer infection. Amphibians associated with these habitats tend not to suffer die-offs of this cause - it's those from high altitudes and fast-flowing water which do.

FYI - "water fleas" [aquatic crustaceans] have no significant relationship with "fleas" [terrestrial parasitic insects].
 
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