Fire salamanders killed by newly discovered fungus

[Maarten Gilbert]

A newly discovered fungus, Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans, appears to be responsible for nearly wiping out the few remaining fire salamander populations in the Netherlands:

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandevent ... 13-11-41-0

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/ ... 5d19c976bf

Not so good news...

Maarten

[Pierre-Yves Vaucher]

God (?) save us...

[Borji Heras]

Science save us . . .

[Guillaume Gomard]

Since 2010, the species has declined, with only 4% of the population remaining in 2013.

I was not aware it was so serious... Disquieting news

[Jeroen Speybroeck]

150km away from my babies

[Matthijs Hollanders]

I don't know if they have enough data to say with anything close to certainty that 96% is dead.

[Jeroen Speybroeck]

I don't know if they have enough data to say with anything close to certainty that 96% is dead.

Then you should find out

Seriously, though, from what I've learned, a massive amount of monitoring has been conducted. On the other hand, there are only few species that are harder to assess population size.

[Jeroen Speybroeck]

Some more reading
http://www.ravon.nl/Portals/0/spitzen_e ... rlands.pdf