Sasha Greenspan - Understanding the tipping points leading to population crashes due to wildlife disease

I joined the lab in May 2014 to pursue my research interests in amphibian and reptile conservation, tropical ecology, and emerging wildlife diseases.  For my PhD, I am studying ecological factors leading to outbreaks of the infectious disease chytridiomycosis in Australian Wet Tropics Frogs, including transmission dynamics in tadpoles, frog thermal ecology, and growth patterns in the disease agent, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. My research is supported by an ARC Discovery Grant.

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