Project

Mitigating an amphibian pandemic by embedding biodiversity conservation in contaminant exposed agricultural landscapes

Code

01GC2416

Duration

01 January 2016 → 31 October 2022

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor

Peter Goethals

Research disciplines

Natural sciences
- Animal biology
- Ecology
- Microbiology
- Systems biology
- Environmental science and management
- Other environmental sciences
Medical and health sciences
- Immunology
- Laboratory medicine
- Microbiology
- Immunology
- Laboratory medicine
- Microbiology
- Biomarker discovery and evaluation
- Drug discovery and development
- Medicinal products
- Pharmaceutics
- Pharmacognosy and phytochemistry
- Pharmacology
- Pharmacotherapy
- Toxicology and toxinology
- Other pharmaceutical sciences
- Immunology
- Laboratory medicine
- Microbiology
Agricultural and food sciences
- Veterinary medicine
- Other veterinary sciences
- Other agricultural and food sciences

Keywords

contaminant agriculture amphibians mitigation chytridiomycosis Biodiversity

Project description

Urgent measures are necessary to mitigate the impact of the fungal amphibian skin disease chytridiomycosis, which is emblematic for global disease driven loss of biodiversity. Here we aim at steering chytrid epidemiology towards a state of host-pathogen co-existence instead of epidemics by exploiting micropredator community dynamics in a context of aquatic eutrophication and contamination.