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Karen Lips's Degrees
- PhD Ecology University of Miami
- Masters Zoology University of Maryland, College Park
- Bachelors Biology University of Maryland, College Park
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Karen R. Lips is a Professor of Biology at University of Maryland, College Park. Lips' work in the 1990s eventually contributed to the identification of the chytrid fungus as the primary cause of frog decline worldwide.
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- Chytridiomycosis causes amphibian mortality associated with population declines in the rain forests of Australia and Central America. (1998) (1874)
- Emerging infectious disease and the loss of biodiversity in a Neotropical amphibian community. (2006) (1160)
- Amphibian fungal panzootic causes catastrophic and ongoing loss of biodiversity (2019) (595)
- Riding the Wave: Reconciling the Roles of Disease and Climate Change in Amphibian Declines (2008) (497)
- Decline of a Tropical Montane Amphibian Fauna (1998) (421)
- Mass Mortality and Population Declines of Anurans at an Upland Site in Western Panama (1999) (414)
- Recent introduction of a chytrid fungus endangers Western Palearctic salamanders (2014) (407)
- Population Declines and Priorities for Amphibian Conservation in Latin America (2001) (399)
- Ecological Traits Predicting Amphibian Population Declines in Central America (2003) (383)
- Epidemic disease decimates amphibian abundance, species diversity, and evolutionary history in the highlands of central Panama (2010) (328)
- Catastrophic Population Declines and Extinctions in Neotropical Harlequin Frogs (Bufonidae: Atelopus) 1 (2005) (324)
- The effects of amphibian population declines on the structure and function of Neotropical stream ecosystems (2006) (317)
- Confronting Amphibian Declines and Extinctions (2006) (285)
- Neotropical tadpoles influence stream benthos: evidence for the ecological consequences of decline in amphibian populations (2004) (191)
- Widespread rapid reductions in body size of adult salamanders in response to climate change (2014) (179)
- Disentangling host, pathogen, and environmental determinants of a recently emerged wildlife disease: lessons from the first 15 years of amphibian chytridiomycosis research (2015) (172)
- Overview of chytrid emergence and impacts on amphibians (2016) (153)
- Amphibian population declines in montane southern Mexico: resurveys of historical localities (2004) (153)
- PREDICTED DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY IN A PANAMANIAN AMPHIBIAN ASSEMBLAGE BASED ON SKIN PEPTIDE DEFENSES (2006) (151)
- Amphibian Declines in Latin America: Widespread Population Declines, Extinctions, and Impacts 1 (2005) (140)
- Energy flow and subsidies associated with the complex life cycle of ambystomatid salamanders in ponds and adjacent forest in southern Illinois (2006) (140)
- Chytridiomycosis in Wild Frogs from Southern Costa Rica (2003) (128)
- Disease-Driven Amphibian Declines Alter Ecosystem Processes in a Tropical Stream (2012) (125)
- Amphibian Population Declines in Latin America: A Synthesis 1 (2005) (115)
- Amphibian Declines and Environmental Change: Use of Remote‐Sensing Data to Identify Environmental Correlates (2001) (113)
- Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection patterns among Panamanian amphibian species, habitats and elevations during epizootic and enzootic stages. (2008) (108)
- Antimicrobial peptides and protease inhibitors in the skin secretions of the crawfish frog, Rana areolata. (2002) (103)
- Fighting a Losing Battle: Vigorous Immune Response Countered by Pathogen Suppression of Host Defenses in the Chytridiomycosis-Susceptible Frog Atelopus zeteki (2014) (95)
- More than Skin Deep: Functional Genomic Basis for Resistance to Amphibian Chytridiomycosis (2014) (94)
- Selecting for extinction: nonrandom disease-associated extinction homogenizes amphibian biotas. (2009) (92)
- Testing the role of ecology and life history in structuring genetic variation across a landscape: a trait‐based phylogeographic approach (2015) (85)
- Alternative views of amphibian toe-clipping (2005) (83)
- Decline and extirpation of an endangered Panamanian stream frog population (Craugastor punctariolus) due to an outbreak of chytridiomycosis (2008) (82)
- Effects of host species and environment on the skin microbiome of Plethodontid salamanders (2018) (82)
- Biodiversity. Confronting amphibian declines and extinctions. (2006) (81)
- A century of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Illinois amphibians (1888 1989) (2015) (79)
- Changes in Stream Primary Producer Communities Resulting from Large-Scale Catastrophic Amphibian Declines: Can Small-Scale Experiments Predict Effects of Tadpole Loss? (2008) (78)
- Tropical snake diversity collapses after widespread amphibian loss (2020) (77)
- Vertebrates associated with tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) burrows in four habitats in South-central Florida (1991) (71)
- DNA barcoding applied to ex situ tropical amphibian conservation programme reveals cryptic diversity in captive populations (2012) (69)
- Fungal Infection Intensity and Zoospore Output of Atelopus zeteki, a Potential Acute Chytrid Supershedder (2014) (62)
- Estimating patterns and drivers of infection prevalence and intensity when detection is imperfect and sampling error occurs (2012) (57)
- Using decision analysis to support proactive management of emerging infectious wildlife diseases (2017) (55)
- Assessing ecological responses to catastrophic amphibian declines: Patterns of macroinvertebrate production and food web structure in upland Panamanian streams (2009) (55)
- A stable isotope study of a neotropical stream food web prior to the extirpation of its large amphibian community (2007) (55)
- A Fungal Pathogen of Amphibians, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, Attenuates in Pathogenicity with In Vitro Passages (2013) (52)
- Amphibian Decline and Conservation in Central America (2016) (50)
- Truly enigmatic declines in terrestrial salamander populations in Great Smoky Mountains National Park (2013) (50)
- Inhibition of Fungal Pathogens across Genotypes and Temperatures by Amphibian Skin Bacteria (2017) (47)
- Amphibian monitoring in Latin America : a protocol manual = Monitoreo de anifibos en América Latina : manual de protocolos (2001) (47)
- Allochthonous litter inputs, organic matter standing stocks, and organic seston dynamics in upland Panamanian streams: potential effects of larval amphibians on organic matter dynamics (2008) (47)
- Unexpected Rarity of the Pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Appalachian Plethodon Salamanders: 1957–2011 (2014) (46)
- Variation in the trophic basis of production and energy flow associated with emergence of larval salamander assemblages from forest ponds (2008) (42)
- Survival and Abundance in Males of the Glass Frog Espadarana (Centrolene) prosoblepon in Central Panama (2013) (42)
- Energy flow and the trophic basis of macroinvertebrate and amphibian production in a neotropical stream food web (2013) (40)
- Genetic diversity of MHC class I loci in six non-model frogs is shaped by positive selection and gene duplication (2012) (39)
- Amphibians on the brink (2017) (39)
- Potential Functional Redundancy and Resource Facilitation between Tadpoles and Insect Grazers in Tropical Headwater Streams (2010) (38)
- Host susceptibility to snake fungal disease is highly dispersed across phylogenetic and functional trait space (2017) (38)
- SUSCEPTIBILITY TO THE AMPHIBIAN CHYTRID FUNGUS VARIES WITH ONTOGENY IN THE DIRECT-DEVELOPING FROG, ELEUTHERODACTYLUS COQUI (2014) (38)
- Salamander Chytrid Fungus(Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans)in the United States — developing research, monitoring, and management strategies (2016) (37)
- Imperfect pathogen detection from non‐invasive skin swabs biases disease inference (2017) (34)
- Amphibian-killing fungus loses genetic diversity as it spreads across the New World (2012) (32)
- Synergistic China–US Ecological Research is Essential for Global Emerging Infectious Disease Preparedness (2020) (32)
- Challenges for interpreting stable isotope fractionation of carbon and nitrogen in tropical aquatic ecosystems (2009) (29)
- Double trouble: co-infections of chytrid fungi will severely impact widely distributed newts (2019) (29)
- Reproductive trade-offs and bet-hedging in Hyla calypsa, a Neotropical treefrog (2001) (29)
- Fungal disease and temperature alter skin microbiome structure in an experimental salamander system (2019) (27)
- Antifungal Bacteria on Woodland Salamander Skin Exhibit High Taxonomic Diversity and Geographic Variability (2017) (25)
- Long-term changes in structure and function of a tropical headwater stream following a disease-driven amphibian decline (2015) (24)
- Eco-evolutionary rescue promotes host-pathogen coexistence. (2018) (24)
- The demography of Atelopus decline: Harlequin frog survival and abundance in central Panama prior to and during a disease outbreak (2015) (22)
- First in Vivo Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Transcriptomes Reveal Mechanisms of Host Exploitation, Host-Specific Gene Expression, and Expressed Genotype Shifts (2016) (21)
- Stream invertebrate responses to a catastrophic decline in consumer diversity (2010) (21)
- Angiosperm Endozoochory: Were Pterosaurs Cretaceous Seed Dispersers? (1991) (20)
- Diverse genotypes of the amphibian‐killing fungus produce distinct phenotypes through plastic responses to temperature (2019) (20)
- Fine scale gene flow and individual movements among subpopulations of Centrolene prosoblepon (Anura: Centrolenidae). (2006) (19)
- Do tadpoles affect leaf decomposition in neotropical streams (2011) (19)
- Temperature‐mediated shifts in salamander transcriptomic responses to the amphibian‐killing fungus (2019) (17)
- Initial versus longer-term effects of tadpole declines on algae in a Neotropical stream (2014) (17)
- Evidence for the persistence of food web structure after amphibian extirpation in a Neotropical stream. (2015) (16)
- Incapacitating effects of fungal coinfection in a novel pathogen system. (2020) (16)
- Goo-Eaters: Diets of the Neotropical Snakes Dipsas and Sibon in Central Panama (2012) (16)
- OVIPOSITION, EARLY DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH OF THE CAVE SALAMANDER, EURYCEA LUCIFUGA: SURFACE AND SUBTERRANEAN INFLUENCES ON A TROGLOPHILIC SPECIES (2007) (15)
- A NEW SPECIES OF RAINFROG (GENUS ELEUTHERODACTYLUS) FROM THE SERRANÍA DE TABASARÁ, WEST–CENTRAL PANAMA AND REANALYSIS OF THE FITZINGERI SPECIES GROUP (2004) (15)
- Museum collections: Mining the past to manage the future (2011) (14)
- Key to the Known Tadpoles (Amphibia: Anura) of Costa Rica (1996) (13)
- Effects of Density on Spatial Aggregation and Habitat Associations of the Glass Frog Espadarana (Centrolene) prosoblepon (2015) (12)
- Dead or alive? Viability of chytrid zoospores shed from live amphibian hosts. (2016) (12)
- Response to Comment on “Amphibian fungal panzootic causes catastrophic and ongoing loss of biodiversity” (2020) (11)
- A New Species of the Craugastor rugulosus Series (Anura: Craugastoridae) from West-Central Panama (2010) (10)
- Differentiating Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and B. salamandrivorans in Amphibian Chytridiomycosis Using RNAScope® in situ Hybridization (2019) (10)
- Disassembly of a tadpole community by a multi-host fungal pathogen with limited evidence of recovery. (2017) (9)
- Island of opportunity: can New Guinea protect amphibians from a globally emerging pathogen? (2019) (9)
- New Treefrog from the Cordillera de Talamanca of Central America with a Discussion of Systematic Relationships in the Hyla lancasteri Group (1996) (9)
- Engagement 2.0: increasing our collective impact (2016) (8)
- Use of stable isotope ratios to characterize potential shifts in the isotopic niches of grazing insects following an amphibian decline in a Neotropical stream (2013) (8)
- Preparing Scientists for Science Diplomacy Requires New Science Policy Bridges (2020) (8)
- Lessons from the Tropics (2005) (8)
- New Species of Pristimantis (Anura: Terrarana: Strabomantinae) from Lower Central America (2010) (7)
- A tale of two lineages: unexpected, long‐term persistence of the amphibian‐killing fungus in Brazil (2014) (7)
- Eggs and Tadpole of Bufo fastidiosus Cope, with Comments on Reproductive Behavior (1995) (7)
- A New Fossorial Snake Of The Genus Geophis (Reptilia, Serpentes, Colubridae) From The Cordillera de-Talamanca Of Costa rica (1994) (7)
- Plethodontid salamanders show variable disease dynamics in response to Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans chytridiomycosis (2021) (7)
- A new species of Celestus from west-central Panama, with consideration of the status of the genera of the Anguidae: Diploglossinae (Squamata). (2006) (7)
- The six dimensions of collective leadership that advance sustainability objectives: rethinking what it means to be an academic leader (2021) (6)
- Ontogenetic Shift in Height of Sleeping Perches of Cope's Vine Snake, Oxybelis brevirostris (2011) (6)
- Preparing for invasion: Assessing risk of infection by chytrid fungi in southeastern plethodontid salamanders. (2020) (6)
- Communal Nesting in the Anoline Lizard Norops lionotus (Polychrotidae) in Central Panama (2011) (5)
- External Reinfection of a Fungal Pathogen Does not Contribute to Pathogen Growth (2018) (5)
- Witnessing extinction in real time (2018) (5)
- amphibian community From The Cover: Emerging infectious disease and the loss of biodiversity in a Neotropical (2006) (5)
- Morphological variation in the tropical anole, Anolis casildae (Squamata: Polychrotidae). (2001) (4)
- The population biology of Hyla calypsa, a stream-breeding treefrog from lower Central America (1995) (3)
- A New Species Of Rainfrog, Eleutherodactylus Phasma (Anura: Leptodactylidae), From Montane Costa Rica (1996) (3)
- Amphibian collapses increased malaria incidence in Central America (2022) (3)
- Evolution of paedomorphosis in plethodontid salamanders: ecological correlates and re-evolution of metamorphosis (2014) (3)
- Amphibian diversity in Serranía de Majé, an isolated mountain range in eastern Panamá (2019) (2)
- 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. (2017) (2)
- Amphibian Collapses Exacerbated Malaria Outbreaks in Central America (2020) (2)
- Cellular substructures in the optic tectum of Antarctic and temperate fish (1996) (2)
- Mechanisms underlying lack of functional compensation by insect grazers after tadpole declines in a Neotropical stream (2021) (2)
- The hidden biodiversity of amphibian pathogens (2018) (2)
- Disease-Driven Amphibian Declines Alter Ecosystem Processes in a Tropical Stream (2012) (1)
- Natural History Note: Sibon Longifrenis (Drab Snaileater) (2007) (1)
- Genetic variation and selection of MHC class I loci differ in two congeneric frogs (2018) (1)
- Relationship between Bd infection intensity and zoospore output. (2014) (0)
- Consequences of Catastrophic Amphibian Declines on the Food Web Attributes of a Neotropical Stream (2013) (0)
- Reviewers 2007 (2007) (0)
- Eyewitnesses to History? (2003) (0)
- Neotropical Amphibian Declines Affect Stream Ecosystem Properties (2005) (0)
- Survival curves of Atelopus zeteki with ( n = 3) and without ( n = 5) prior Bd exposure (log-rank test: χ 2 = 0.7, p = 0.40). (2014) (0)
- Title: Amphibian Collapses Exacerbated Malaria Outbreaks 2 in Central America 3 (2020) (0)
- Correction to: Plethodontid salamanders show variable disease dynamics in response to Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans chytridiomycosis (2021) (0)
- Figure 2 from: Medina D, Ibáñez R, Lips KR, Crawford AJ (2019) Amphibian diversity in Serranía de Majé, an isolated mountain range in eastern Panamá. ZooKeys 859: 117-130. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.859.32869 (2019) (0)
- Genetic variation and selection of MHC class I loci differ in two congeneric frogs (2018) (0)
- The Effects of Amphibian Extirpations on Foodweb Structure and Function in Panamanian Highland Streams. (2005) (0)
- Trophic Basis of Production in a Neotropical Headwater Stream: Implications for the Ecological Consequences of Amphibian Declines (2010) (0)
- Supplementary material 1 from: Medina D, Ibáñez R, Lips KR, Crawford AJ (2019) Amphibian diversity in Serranía de Majé, an isolated mountain range in eastern Panamá. ZooKeys 859: 117-130. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.859.32869 (2019) (0)
- Amphibian Declines and Issues of Inference: Response to Parmesan and Singer (2008) (0)
- Figure 4 from: Medina D, Ibáñez R, Lips KR, Crawford AJ (2019) Amphibian diversity in Serranía de Majé, an isolated mountain range in eastern Panamá. ZooKeys 859: 117-130. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.859.32869 (2019) (0)
- Environmental Change and Infectious Disease (Press Release) : A speaker series sponsored by the Bennington College Program on Environment (2014) (0)
- Summary of Atelopus zeteki infection intensity (number of zoospores on skin swabs) and zoospore output (number of zoospores released per minute) at death. (2014) (0)
- Influences of Catastrophic Amphibian Declines on Storage and Export of Fine Particulate Organic Matter in Neotropical Headwater Streams (2010) (0)
- The Editorial Staff of Herpetological Conservation and Biology would like to acknowledge the following 137 peer-reviewers for their expert opinions in 2006-2007. Your efforts, dedication, and professionalism have ensured that Herpetological Conservation and Biology is a success. (2008) (0)
- Double trouble: co-infections of chytrid fungi will severely impact widely distributed newts (2019) (0)
- Malformed Frogs: The Collapse of Aquatic Ecosystems.ByMichael Lannoo. Berkeley (California): University of California Press. $65.00. xvi + 270 p. + 4 pl.; ill.; index. 978‐0‐520‐25588‐3. 2008. (2009) (0)
- Environmental Change and Infectious Disease Speaker Series (Poster) (2014) (0)
- Figure 3 from: Medina D, Ibáñez R, Lips KR, Crawford AJ (2019) Amphibian diversity in Serranía de Majé, an isolated mountain range in eastern Panamá. ZooKeys 859: 117-130. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.859.32869 (2019) (0)
- Examining why grazing mayflies do not functionally compensate for the top-down control of algal communities following disease-driven tadpole declines in a Neotropical stream (2014) (0)
- Grant et al 2015 USGS Bsal Response Workshop (2016) (0)
- Food Web Properties Persist Following Amphibian Extirpations in a Neotropical Stream (2013) (0)
- Figure 1 from: Medina D, Ibáñez R, Lips KR, Crawford AJ (2019) Amphibian diversity in Serranía de Majé, an isolated mountain range in eastern Panamá. ZooKeys 859: 117-130. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.859.32869 (2019) (0)
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