{"id":814,"date":"2011-09-19T19:39:01","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T19:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakthroughsinscience\/?p=814"},"modified":"2011-11-08T19:48:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T19:48:28","slug":"biodiversity-helps-dilute-infectious-disease-reduce-its-severity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakthroughsinscience\/2011\/09\/19\/biodiversity-helps-dilute-infectious-disease-reduce-its-severity\/","title":{"rendered":"Biodiversity helps dilute infectious disease, reduce its severity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Stauth, Oregon State University News and Communication<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CORVALLIS, Ore. \u2013 Researchers at Oregon State University have shown for the first time that loss of biodiversity may be contributing to a fungal infection that is killing amphibians around the world \u2013 a finding that provides more evidence for why biodiversity is important to many ecosystems.<\/p>\n<p>The research, being published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, used laboratory <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/mTAJdd\">studies of amphibians<\/a> to show that increased species richness decreased both the prevalence and severity of infection caused by the deadly chytrid fungus, <em>Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"Biodiversity helps dilute infectious disease, reduce its severity \" href=\"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/ua\/ncs\/archives\/2011\/sep\/biodiversity-helps-dilute-infectious-disease-reduce-its-severity\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Stauth, Oregon State University News and Communication CORVALLIS, Ore. \u2013 Researchers at Oregon State University have shown for the first time that loss of biodiversity may be contributing to a fungal infection that is killing amphibians around the world \u2013 a finding that provides more evidence for why biodiversity is important to many ecosystems. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zoology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakthroughsinscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakthroughsinscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakthroughsinscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakthroughsinscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakthroughsinscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakthroughsinscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakthroughsinscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakthroughsinscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakthroughsinscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakthroughsinscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}