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List of works by Karen R. Lips

A New Species of Rainfrog (Genus Eleutherodactylus) from the Serranía De Tabasará, West–Central Panama and Reanalysis of the Fitzingeri Species Group

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A New Species of the Craugastor rugulosus Series (Anura: Craugastoridae) from West-Central Panama

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A century of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Illinois amphibians (1888–1989)

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A fungal pathogen of amphibians, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, attenuates in pathogenicity with in vitro passages

scientific article

A new species of Celestus from west-central Panama, with consideration of the status of the genera of the Anguidae: Diploglossinae (Squamata).

scientific article

A stable isotope study of a neotropical stream food web prior to the extirpation of its large amphibian community

scientific article published in 2007

A tale of two lineages: unexpected, long-term persistence of the amphibian-killing fungus in Brazil.

scientific article

Allochthonous litter inputs, organic matter standing stocks, and organic seston dynamics in upland Panamanian streams: potential effects of larval amphibians on organic matter dynamics

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Alternative views of amphibian toe-clipping

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Altitudinal distribution and advertisement call of Colostethus latinasus (Amphibia: Dendrobatidae), endemic species from eastern Panama and type species of Colostethus , with a molecular assessment of similar sympatric species

scientific article (publication date: 12 April 2017)

Amphibian Decline and Conservation in Central America

Amphibian Declines and Environmental Change: Use of Remote-Sensing Data to Identify Environmental Correlates

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Amphibian Declines in Latin America: Widespread Population Declines, Extinctions, and Impacts1

Amphibian Population Declines in Latin America: A Synthesis1

Amphibian diversity in Serranía de Majé, an isolated mountain range in eastern Panamá

scientific article published on 02 July 2019

Amphibian fungal panzootic causes catastrophic and ongoing loss of biodiversity

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Amphibian population declines in montane southern Mexico: resurveys of historical localities

scientific article (publication date: October 2004)

Amphibian-killing fungus loses genetic diversity as it spreads across the New World

Amphibians and Reptiles of La Selva, Costa Rica, and the Caribbean Slope: A Comprehensive Guide. By Craig Guyer and , Maureen A Donnelly. Berkeley (California): University of California Press. $60.00 (hardcover); $24.95 (paper). viii + 299 p + 207 pl

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Amphibians on the brink.

scientific article published in August 2017

Angiosperm Endozoochory: Were Pterosaurs Cretaceous Seed Dispersers?

scientific article published in 1991

Antifungal Bacteria on Woodland Salamander Skin Exhibit High Taxonomic Diversity and Geographic Variability

scientific article

Antimicrobial peptides and protease inhibitors in the skin secretions of the crawfish frog, Rana areolata

scientific article published in November 2002

Assessing ecological responses to catastrophic amphibian declines: Patterns of macroinvertebrate production and food web structure in upland Panamanian streams

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Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection patterns among Panamanian amphibian species, habitats and elevations during epizootic and enzootic stages

scientific article

Biodiversity. Confronting amphibian declines and extinctions

scientific article published in July 2006

Catastrophic Population Declines and Extinctions in Neotropical Harlequin Frogs (Bufonidae: Atelopus)1

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Changes in Stream Primary Producer Communities Resulting from Large-Scale Catastrophic Amphibian Declines: Can Small-Scale Experiments Predict Effects of Tadpole Loss?

Chytridiomycosis causes amphibian mortality associated with population declines in the rain forests of Australia and Central America

scientific article

Communal Nesting in the Anoline Lizard Norops lionotus (Polychrotidae) in Central Panama

Correction to: Plethodontid salamanders show variable disease dynamics in response to Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans chytridiomycosis

scientific article published on 04 June 2021

DNA barcoding applied to ex situ tropical amphibian conservation programme reveals cryptic diversity in captive populations

scientific article

Dead or alive? Viability of chytrid zoospores shed from live amphibian hosts

scientific article published on May 2016

Decline and extirpation of an endangered Panamanian stream frog population (Craugastor punctariolus) due to an outbreak of chytridiomycosis

Decline of a Tropical Montane Amphibian Fauna

Decline of a Tropical Montane Amphibian Fauna

Differentiating Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and B. salamandrivorans in Amphibian Chytridiomycosis Using RNAScope® in situ Hybridization

scientific article published on 12 September 2019

Disassembly of a tadpole community by a multi-host fungal pathogen with limited evidence of recovery

scientific article

Disentangling host, pathogen, and environmental determinants of a recently emerged wildlife disease: lessons from the first 15 years of amphibian chytridiomycosis research

scientific article published on 2 September 2015

Diverse genotypes of the amphibian-killing fungus produce distinct phenotypes through plastic responses to temperature

scientific article published on 08 February 2019

Double trouble: co-infections of chytrid fungi will severely impact widely distributed newts

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Eco-evolutionary rescue promotes host-pathogen coexistence

scientific article published in 2018

Ecological Traits Predicting Amphibian Population Declines in Central America

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Effects of Density on Spatial Aggregation and Habitat Associations of the Glass FrogEspadarana (Centrolene) prosoblepon

scientific article published in 2015

Effects of host species and environment on the skin microbiome of Plethodontid salamanders

scientific article published on 6 July 2017

Eggs and Tadpole of Bufo fastidiosus Cope, with Comments on Reproductive Behavior

Emerging infectious disease and the loss of biodiversity in a Neotropical amphibian community

scientific article published on 15 February 2006

Energy flow and subsidies associated with the complex life cycle of ambystomatid salamanders in ponds and adjacent forest in southern Illinois

scientific article published in October 2005

Energy flow and the trophic basis of macroinvertebrate and amphibian production in a neotropical stream food web

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Engagement 2.0: increasing our collective impact

scientific article published in 2016

Epidemic disease decimates amphibian abundance, species diversity, and evolutionary history in the highlands of central Panama

scientific article

Estimating patterns and drivers of infection prevalence and intensity when detection is imperfect and sampling error occurs

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Evidence for the persistence of food web structure after amphibian extirpation in a Neotropical stream

scientific article published on August 2015

External Reinfection of a Fungal Pathogen Does not Contribute to Pathogen Growth

scientific article published on 20 August 2018

Eyewitnesses to History?

scientific article published in 2003

Fighting a losing battle: vigorous immune response countered by pathogen suppression of host defenses in the chytridiomycosis-susceptible frog Atelopus zeteki

scientific article published on 19 May 2014

Fine scale gene flow and individual movements among subpopulations of Centrolene prosoblepon (Anura: Centrolenidae).

scientific article published on March 2008

First in Vivo Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Transcriptomes Reveal Mechanisms of Host Exploitation, Host-Specific Gene Expression, and Expressed Genotype Shifts

scientific article

Fungal disease and temperature alter skin microbiome structure in an experimental salamander system

scientific article published on 05 June 2019

Fungal infection intensity and zoospore output of Atelopus zeteki, a potential acute chytrid supershedder

scientific article

Genetic diversity of MHC class I loci in six non-model frogs is shaped by positive selection and gene duplication

scientific article

Genetic variation and selection of MHC class I loci differ in two congeneric frogs

scientific article published on 15 February 2018

Goo-Eaters: Diets of the Neotropical Snakes Dipsas and Sibon in Central Panama

Host susceptibility to snake fungal disease is highly dispersed across phylogenetic and functional trait space

scientific article published on 20 December 2017

Imperfect pathogen detection from non-invasive skin swabs biases disease inference

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Incapacitating effects of fungal coinfection in a novel pathogen system

scientific article published on 20 April 2020

Inhibition of Fungal Pathogens across Genotypes and Temperatures by Amphibian Skin Bacteria.

scientific article

Initial versus longer-term effects of tadpole declines on algae in a Neotropical stream

Key to the Known Tadpoles (Amphibia: Anura) of Costa Rica

scholarly article by Karen R. Lips & Jay M Savage published 1 March 1996 in Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment

Lessons from the Tropics

Long-term changes in structure and function of a tropical headwater stream following a disease-driven amphibian decline

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Malformed Frogs: The Collapse of Aquatic Ecosystems. By Michael Lannoo. Berkeley (California): University of California Press. $65.00. xvi + 270 p. + 4 pl.; ill.; index. 978‐0‐520‐25588‐3. 2008

Mass Mortality and Population Declines of Anurans at an Upland Site in Western Panama

scientific article (publication date: February 1999)

More than skin deep: functional genomic basis for resistance to amphibian chytridiomycosis

scientific article

Museum collections: Mining the past to manage the future ⬇️

scientific article published on May 24, 2011

Neotropical tadpoles influence stream benthos: evidence for the ecological consequences of decline in amphibian populations

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New Species of Pristimantis (Anura: Terrarana: Strabomantinae) from Lower Central America

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New Treefrog from the Cordillera de Talamanca of Central America with a Discussion of Systematic Relationships in the Hyla lancasteri Group

Ontogenetic Shift in Height of Sleeping Perches of Cope's Vine Snake, Oxybelis brevirostris

article by Chad E. Montgomery et al published September 2011 in Southwestern Naturalist

Overview of chytrid emergence and impacts on amphibians

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Oviposition, Early Development and Growth of the Cave Salamander, Eurycea lucifuga: Surface and Subterranean Influences on a Troglophilic Species

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Plethodontid salamanders show variable disease dynamics in response to Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans chytridiomycosis

scientific article published on 28 April 2021

Population Declines and Priorities for Amphibian Conservation in Latin America

Population Declines and Priorities for Amphibian Conservation in Latin America

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Predicted disease susceptibility in a Panamanian amphibian assemblage based on skin peptide defenses

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Preparing for invasion: Assessing risk of infection by chytrid fungi in southeastern plethodontid salamanders

scientific article published on 10 November 2020

Reproductive trade-offs and bet-hedging in Hyla calypsa, a Neotropical treefrog

scientific article published on August 2001

Response to Comment on "Amphibian fungal panzootic causes catastrophic and ongoing loss of biodiversity"

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Riding the wave: reconciling the roles of disease and climate change in amphibian declines

scientific article

Salamander chytrid fungus ( Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans ) in the United States—Developing research, monitoring, and management strategies

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Selecting for extinction: nonrandom disease-associated extinction homogenizes amphibian biotas

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Stream invertebrate responses to a catastrophic decline in consumer diversity

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Survival and Abundance in Males of the Glass FrogEspadarana(Centrolene)prosobleponin Central Panama

scientific article published in 2013

Susceptibility to the amphibian chytrid fungus varies with ontogeny in the direct-developing frog, Eleutherodactylus coqui

scientific article published on 7 May 2014

Synergistic China-US Ecological Research is Essential for Global Emerging Infectious Disease Preparedness

scientific article published on 03 February 2020

Temperature-mediated shifts in salamander transcriptomic responses to the amphibian-killing fungus

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Testing the role of ecology and life history in structuring genetic variation across a landscape: a trait-based phylogeographic approach

scientific article published on 14 July 2015

The demography of Atelopus decline: Harlequin frog survival and abundance in central Panama prior to and during a disease outbreak

scholarly article by Rebecca McCaffery et al published July 2015 in Global Ecology and Conservation

The effects of amphibian population declines on the structure and function of Neotropical stream ecosystems

article by Matt Whiles et al published February 2006 in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

The hidden biodiversity of amphibian pathogens

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The six dimensions of collective leadership that advance sustainability objectives: rethinking what it means to be an academic leader

scientific article

Tropical snake diversity collapses after widespread amphibian loss

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Truly enigmatic declines in terrestrial salamander populations in Great Smoky Mountains National Park

scientific article published in 2012

Unexpected rarity of the pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Appalachian Plethodon Salamanders: 1957-2011.

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Use of stable isotope ratios to characterize potential shifts in the isotopic niches of grazing insects following an amphibian decline in a Neotropical stream

scientific article published in 2013

Using decision analysis to support proactive management of emerging infectious wildlife diseases

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Vertebrates Associated with Tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) Burrows in Four Habitats in South-Central Florida

scientific article published in 1991

Widespread rapid reductions in body size of adult salamanders in response to climate change

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Wildlife disease. Recent introduction of a chytrid fungus endangers Western Palearctic salamanders

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Witnessing extinction in real time

scientific article

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