Living the high life is risky business for toads under threat from fungus
Midwife toads that live in the mountains are highly likely to die from a serious fungal infection, called chytridiomycosis, whereas their infected relatives in the lowlands are not, according to new research published today in Ecology Letters. The authors of the study, from Imperial College London, the Zoological Society of London and the BiodivERsA-project RACE,…