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Vredenburg Curriculum Vitae (CV long version) (CV short version)
In Review
Steigerwald E, Chen J, Oshiro J, Vredenburg VT, Catenazzi A, Koo MS. Small is big: A new conservation paradigm for amphibians. Scientific Reports
Bernardo-Cravo AP, Loyau A, Karakoç C, Haver M, Vredenburg VT, Chatzinotas A, DS Schmeller. In Review. Climate and introduced fish influence amphibian skin microbiome in mountain lakes. Scientific Reports
Womack, MC, SM Strobel, J Phillips, J. Parreiras, VT Vredenburg, and MH Wake. Organisms have gravity. Journal of Experimental Biology.
2024
Dodge, CM, C Brown, AJ Lind, RA Knapp, LR Wilkinson, VT Vredenburg. 2024. Historical and contemporary impacts of the invasive fungal pathogen, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, on the Yosemite toad. Biological Conservation https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110504
Belasen, AM, Peek R, Adams A, Russell I, De León M, Adams M, Bettaso J, Breedveld K, Catenazzi A, Dillingham C, Grear D, Halstead B, Johnso P, Kleeman P, Koo M, Koppl C, Lauder J, Padgett-Flohr G, Piovia-Scott J, Pope K, Westphal M, Vredenburg VT, Wiseman K, Kupferberg S. 2024 Chytrid infections exhibit historical spread and contemporary seasonality in a declining stream-breeding frog. R. Soc. Open Sci. 11: 231270. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.231270
2023
Ghose SL, Yap TA, Byrne AQ, Sulaeman H, Rosenblum EB, Chan-Alvarado A, Chaukulkar S, Greenbaum E, Koo MS, Kouete MT, Lutz K, McAloose D, Moyer AJ, Parra E, Portik DM, Rockney H, Zink AG, Blackburn DC and Vredenburg VT (2023) Continent-wide recent emergence of a global pathogen in African amphibians. Front. Conserv. Sci. 4:1069490. doi: 10.3389/fcosc.2023.1069490
García-Sánchez, J.C., Arredondo-Centeno, J., Segovia-Ramírez, M.G. Tenorio Olvera, A.M., Parra-Olea G., Vredenburg, V.T., Rovito, S.M. Factors Influencing Bacterial and Fungal Skin Communities of Montane Salamanders of Central Mexico. Microb Ecol 86, 670–686 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-022-02049-x
Bates, KA, Friesen, J, Loyau A, Butler H, Vredenburg VT, Laufer J, Chatzinotas A, Schmeller DS. Environmental and Anthropogenic Factors Shape the Skin Bacterial Communities of a Semi-Arid Amphibian Species. Microb Ecol 86, 1393–1404 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-022-02130-5
2022
Womack MC, E Steigerwald, DC Blackburn, DC Cannatella, A Catenazzi, J Che, M. Koo, JA McGuire, S Ron, C Spencer, VT Vredenburg, RD Tarvin. 2022. State of Amphibia 2020: Five Years of Amphibian Research, Diversity and Resources.” Ichthyology & Herpetology, 110(4):638-661 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1643/h2022005
Schmeller, D.S., Cheng, T., Shelton, J. C. Lin, A Chan- Alvarado, A Bernardo-Cravo, L Zoccarato, T Ding, A Yu, Y Lin, A Swei, MC Fisher, VT Vredenburg, A Loyau. 2022. Environment is associated with chytrid infection and skin microbiome richness on an amphibian rich island (Taiwan). Sci Rep 12, 16456 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-20547-3
García-Sánchez, JC, J Arredondo-Centeno, MG Segovia-Ramírez, M, AM Tenorio Olvera, G Parra Olea, VT Vredenburg, and SM Rovito. Factors Influencing Bacterial and Fungal Skin Communities of Montane Salamanders of Central Mexico. Microb Ecol (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-022-02049-x
Knapp RA, Joseph MB, Smith TC, Hegeman EE, Vredenburg VT, Erdman Jr JE, Boiano DM, Jani AJ, Briggs CJ. 2022. Effectiveness of antifungal treatments during chytridiomycosis epizootics in populations of an endangered frog. PeerJ 10:e12712 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12712
2021
Haver, M., Le Roux, G., Friesen, J., Loyau, A., Vredenburg, V.T., Schmeller, D.S., 2021. The role of abiotic variables in an emerging global amphibian fungal disease in mountains. Science of The Total Environment 152735. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152735 (free access)
Cowgill M, AG Zink, W Sparagon, T Yap, H Sulaeman, MS Koo, VT Vredenburg. (2021) Social behavior, community composition, pathogen strain and host symbionts influence fungal disease dynamics in salamanders. Front. Vet. Sci.https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2021.742288
Koo MS, Vredenburg VT, Deck JB, Olson DH, Ronnenberg KL and Wake DB (2021) Tracking, Synthesizing, and Sharing Global Batrachochytrium Data at AmphibianDisease.org. Front. Vet. Sci. 8:728232. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2021.728232
Ellison, S., Knapp, R. & Vredenburg, V. 2021. Longitudinal patterns in the skin microbiome of wild, individually marked frogs from the Sierra Nevada, California. ISME COMMUN. 1, 45 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43705-021-00047-7
Ritchie, KL, Vredenburg, VT, Chaukulkar, S, Butler H, Zink, A. 2021. Social group size influences pathogen transmission in salamanders. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 75, 136 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-021-03057-6. pdf
Martínez, AE, Parra, E, Gomez, JP and Vredenburg, VT. 2021. Shared predators between primate groups and mixed species bird flocks: the potential for forest-wide eavesdropping networks. Oikos. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.08274
Uetz P, Koo MS, Aguilar R, Brings E, Catenazzi A, Chang AT, Chaitanya R, Freed P, Gross J, Hammermann M, Hosek J, Lambert M, Sergi Z, Spencer CL, Summers K, Tarvin R, Vredenburg VT, Wake DB. 2021. A Quarter Century of Reptile and Amphibian Databases. Herpetological Review 52(2):246-255. pdf
2020
Lambert, M. R., Womack, M. C., Byrne, A. Q., Grundler, M. R., Hernandez-Gomez, O., Noss, C. F., Rothstein, A. P., Blackburn, D. C., Collins, J. P., Crump, M. L., Koo, M. S., Nanjappa, P., Rollins-Smith, L., Vredenburg, V. T., and E. B. Rosenblum. 2020. Response to Scheele et al.: The amphibian chytrid crisis remains data deficient. Science 367. DOI:10.1126/science.aay1838
Woodhams, D.C., Rollins-Smith, L.A., Reinert, L.K. Lam, B.A., Harris, R.N., Briggs, C.J. Vredenburg, V.T., Patel, B.T., Carpioli, R.M., Chaurand, P., Hunziker, P., & Bigler, L. 2020. Probiotics Modulate a Novel Amphibian Skin Defense Peptide That Is Antifungal and Facilitates Growth of Antifungal Bacteria. Microb Ecol 79, 192–202 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-019-01385-9
Caballero-Diaz, C.; Sanchez-Montes, G.; Butler, H.M.; Vredenburg, V.T.; Martinez-Solano, I. The role of artificial breeding sites in amphibian conservation: A case study in rural areas in central Spain. Herpetol. Conserv. Biol.2020, 15, 87–104. pdf
Bernardo-Cravo, AP, DS Schmeller, A Chatzinotas, VT Vredenburg, A Loyau. 2020.Environmental Factors and Host Microbiomes Shape Host–Pathogen Dynamics. Trends in Parasitology 36(7) 616-633 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2020.04.010.
Sette, C.M., Vredenburg, V.T. & Zink, A.G. Differences in Fungal Disease Dynamics in Co-occurring Terrestrial and Aquatic Amphibians. EcoHealth 17, 302–314 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-020-01501-z
Olivares-Miranda M, Vredenburg VT, García-Sánchez JC, Byrne AQ, Rosenblum EB, Rovito SM. 2020. Fungal infection, decline and persistence in the only obligate troglodytic Neotropical salamander. PeerJ 8:e9763 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9763
Greer, J.A., Swei, A., Vredenburg, V.T. et al. Parental Care Alters the Egg Microbiome of Maritime Earwigs. Microb Ecol 80, 920–934 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-020-01558-x
2019
De León ME, Zumbado-Ulate H, García- Rodríguez A, Alvarado G, Sulaeman H, Bolaños F, & VT Vredenburg. 2019. Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection in amphibians predates first known epizootic in Costa Rica. PLoS ONE 14(12): e0208969. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208969
Brown, C, LR Wilkinson, KK Wilkinson, T Tunstall, R Foote, BD Todd and VT Vredenburg. In Press. Demography, habitat, and movements of the Sierra Nevada yellow-legged Frog (Rana sierrae) in streams. Copeia 107(4) 661–675 pdf
Byrne, AQ, VT Vredenburg, A Martel, F Pasmans, RC Bell, DC Blackburn, CJ Briggs, RM Brown, MC Bletz, J Bosch, R Figueroa-Valenzuela, SL Ghose, JR Jaeger, AJ Jani, M Jirku, RA Knapp, DM Portik, CL Richards-Zawacki, H Rockney, T Stark, H Sulaeman, N T Tao, J Voyles, AW Waddle, Z Yuan, E B Rosenblum 2019. Cryptic diversity of a widespread global pathogen reveals new threats for amphibian conservation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2019 116 (41) 20382-20387 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1908289116
Vredenburg VT, McNally SVG, Sulaeman H, Butler HM, Yap T, Koo MS, D Schmeller, C Dodge, T Cheng, G Lau, and CJ Briggs. (2019) Pathogen invasion history elucidates contemporary host pathogen dynamics. PLoS ONE 14(9): e0219981. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219981
Flechas, SV, A Acosta-González, LA Escobar, J Kueneman, ZA Sánchez-Quitian, CM Parra-Giraldo, L Rollins-Smith, LK Reinert, VT Vredenburg, A Amézquita, DC Woodhams. (2019) Microbiota and Skin Defense Peptides Facilitate Coexistence of Two Sympatric Andean Frog Species with a Lethal Pathogen. The ISME Journal 13, pages361–373 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-018-0284-9
Zumbado‐Ulate, H, A García‐Rodríguez, VT Vredenburg, C Searle. 2019. Infection with Batrachochytrium dendrobatidisis common in tropical lowland habitats: Implications for amphibian conservation. Ecology and Evolution9 (8):4917-4930. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5098
Woodhams, D.C., Rollins-Smith, L.A., Reinert, L.K., Lam, B.A., Harris, R.N., Briggs, C.J., Vredenburg, V.T., Patel, B.T., Caprioli, R.M., Chaurand, P., Hunziker, P., and Bigler, L. (2019) Probiotics modulate a novel amphibian skin defense peptide that is antifungal and facilitates growth of antifungal bacteria Microb Ecol (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-019-01385-9
Ellison S, Knapp RA, Sparagon W, Swei A, Vredenburg VT. Reduced skin bacterial diversity correlates with increased pathogen infection intensity in an endangered amphibian host. Mol Ecol. 2019;28:127–140. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14964
2018
Ellison, S., S Rovito, G Parra-Olea, C Vazquez-Almazan, SV Flechas, K Bi, and VT Vredenburg. (2018). The influence of habitat and phylogeny on the skin microbiome of amphibians in Guatemala and Mexico. Microb Ecol (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-018-1288-8
Rios-Sotelo, G, R Figueroa-Valenzuela, and VT Vredenburg. 2018. Retrospective survey reveals extreme rarity of amphibian fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Japanese amphibians from 1890–1990s. Herpetological Review, 2018, 49(2) 247-252.
von May, R, A Catenazzi , R Santa-Cruz, VT Vredenburg. (2018) Microhabitat temperatures and prevalence of the pathogenic fungus Batrachochytriumdendrobatidis inlowland Amazonian frogs. Tropical Conservation Science https://doi.org/10.1177/1940082918797057
Chaukulkar S. A., Sulaeman H., Zink A., and VT Vredenburg. (2018) Pathogen invasion and non-epizootic dynamics in Pacific newts in California over the last century. PLOS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0197710
Bird AK, Prado-Irwin SR, Vredenburg VT and Zink AG (2018) Skin Microbiomes of California Terrestrial Salamanders Are Influenced by Habitat More Than Host Phylogeny. Front. Microbiol. 9:442. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.00442
Catenazzi A, Flechas SV, Burkart D, Hooven ND, Townsend J and Vredenburg VT (2018) Widespread Elevational Occurrence of Antifungal Bacteria in Andean Amphibians Decimated by Disease: A Complex Role for Skin Symbionts in Defense Against Chytridiomycosis. Front. Microbiol. 9:465. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00465 online article
Yap TA, Koo MS, Ambrose RF, Vredenburg VT (2018) Introduced bullfrog facilitates pathogen invasion in the western United States. PLoS ONE 13(4): e0188384. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188384
Schmeller, D. S., A. Loyau, K. Bao, W. Brack, A. Chatzinotas, F. De Vleeschouwer, J. Friesen, L. Gandois, S. V. Hansson, M. Haver, G. Le Roux, J. Shen, R. Teisserenc, and V. T. Vredenburg. (2018) People, pollution and pathogens – Global change impacts in mountain freshwater ecosystems. Science of the Total Environment 622–623:756-763. PDF
Owens, MT, Additional Authors, VT Vredenburg, AG Zink, LA Kelley, CR Domingo, KD Tanner. (2018) Collectively Improving Our Teaching: Attempting Biology Department-wide Professional Development in Scientific Teaching. CBE: Life Sci. Educ. March 1; 17(1):ar2
Martínez, AE, Parra, E, Muellerklein, O, and Vredenburg, VT (2018). Fear‐based niche shifts in neotropical birds. Ecology (2018), 10.1002/ecy.2217. PDF
2017
Yap, TA, Nguyen, NT, Serr, M, Shepack, A, and VT Vredenburg. Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans and the risk of a second amphibian pandemic. EcoHealth (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-017-1278-1 PDF
Familiar López M, Rebollar EA, Harris RN, Vredenburg VT and Hero J-M (2017) Temporal Variation of the Skin Bacterial Community and Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Infection in the Terrestrial Cryptic Frog Philoria loveridgei. Front. Microbiol. 8:2535. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.02535 PDF
Catenazzi A, Swei A, Finkle J, Foreyt E, Wyman L, and Vredenburg VT (2017) Epizootic to enzootic transition of a fungal disease in tropical Andean frogs: Are surviving species still susceptible? PLoS ONE 12(10): e0186478. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0186478 PDF
Martínez, A E, Parra, E, Collado, LF and Vredenburg, VT (2017), Deconstructing the landscape of fear in stable multi-species societies. Ecology, 98: 2447–2455. doi:10.1002/ecy.1935 PDF
De Leon, ME, VT Vredenburg, and J Piovia-Scott. 2016. Recent Emergence of a Chytrid Fungal Pathogen in California Cascades Frogs (Rana cascadae). EcoHealth.doi:10.1007/s10393-016-1201-1 (2016). PDF
Prado-Irwin, SR, Bird, AK, Zink, AG, and Vredenburg, VT. Intraspecific variation in the skin-associated microbiome of Ensatina, the terrestrial ring-species salamander. Microb Ecol (2017). doi:10.1007/s00248-017-0986-y PDF
Jaeger, JR, Waddle, AW, Rivera, R, Harrison DT, Ellison, S, Forrest, MJ, Vredenburg, VT, van Breukelen, F. Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and the decline and survival of the Relict Leopard Frog. EcoHealth (2017). doi:10.1007/s10393-017-1240-2 PDF
Romansic JM, Johnson JE, Wagner RS, Hill RH, Gaulke CA, Vredenburg VT, Blaustein AR (2017) Complex interactive effects of water mold, herbicide, and the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis on Pacific treefrog Hyliola regilla hosts. Dis Aquat Org 123:227-238. https://doi.org/10.3354/dao03094 PDF
Burkart, D., Flechas, S. V., Vredenburg, V.T. and Catenazzi, A. (2017), Cutaneous bacteria, but not peptides, are associated with chytridiomycosis resistance in Peruvian marsupial frogs. Anim Conserv. doi:10.1111/acv.12352 PDF
Adams, A. J., S. J. Kupferberg, M. Q. Wilber, A. P. Pessier, M. Grefsrud, S. Bobzien, V.T. Vredenburg, and C. J. Briggs. 2017. Extreme drought, host density, sex, and bullfrogs influence fungal pathogen infection in a declining lotic amphibian. Ecosphere 8(3):e01740. 10.1002/ecs2.1740 PDF
Cusi JC, AC Barboza, VT Vredenburg, R von May. 2017. New distribution records and conservation status of Atelopus seminiferus Cope, 1874: A Critically Endangered harlequin frog from northern Peru. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 11 (1), 17-24 PDF
2016
Yap, T. A., L. Gillespie, S. Ellison, S.V. Flechas, M. S. Koo, A.E. Martinez, and V.T. Vredenburg. 2016. Invasion of the Fungal Pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis on California Islands. EcoHealth 13:145-150, doi:10.1007/s10393-015-1071-y (2016). PDF
Knapp, RA, GM Fellers, PM Kleeman, DAW Miller, VT Vredenburg, EB Rosenblum, and CJ Briggs. 2016. Large-scale recovery of an endangered amphibian despite ongoing exposure to multiple stressors Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 113, 11889-11894, doi:10.1073/pnas.1600983113 (2016). PDF
Warne, R. W., B. LaBumbard, S. LaGrange, V. T. Vredenburg, and A. Catenazzi. 2016. Co-Infection by Chytrid Fungus and Ranaviruses in Wild and Harvested Frogs in the Tropical Andes. PLoS ONE 11(1): e0145864. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0145864. PDF
2015
Flechas, S., VT Vredenburg, and A. Amézquita. 2015. Infection Prevalence in Three Lowland Species of Harlequin Toads from the Threatened Genus Atelopus. Herpetological Review 46(4) pp. 528-532. PDF
Sette, C, VT Vredenburg, A Zink. 2015. Reconstructing historical and contemporary disease dynamics: a case study using the California slender salamander (Biological Conservation).http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2015.08.0390006-3207/© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. PDF
Yap, T., M. Koo, R.F. Ambrose, D.B. Wake and V.T. Vredenburg. 2015. Averting a biodiversity crisis. 2015. Science. Vol. 349 no. 6247 pp. 481-482. DOI: 10.1126/science.aab1052. PDF
Cusi, J.C., Barboza, A.C., Vredenburg, V.T., Von May, R., 2015. A new locality, range extension and record of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in the endangered terrestrial breeding frog Pristimantis katoptroides Flores, 1988 (Anura: Craugastoridae) in Peru. Check List 11, 1608. PDF
Fong JJ, Cheng TL, Bataille A, Pessier AP, Waldman B, and VT Vredenburg. (2015) Early 1900s Detection of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Korean Amphibians. PLoS ONE 10(3): e0115656. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0115656. PDF
Talley, BL, C Muletz, R Fleischer, VT Vredenburg, and KR Lips A Century of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Illinois Amphibians (1888-1989) 2015. Biological Conservation 182(2015):254-261.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2014.12.0070006-3207/Ó 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. PDF
2014
Galindo-Bustos, MA, DMB Hernandez-Jauregui, T Cheng, VT Vredenburg, and G Parra-Olea. Presence and prevalence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in commercial amphibians in Mexico City. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 2014 45:4, 830-835. PDF
Chaves G, H Zumbado-Ulate, A García-Rodríguez , E Gómez, VT Vredenburg, and MJ Ryan. 2014. Rediscovery of the critically endangered streamside frog Craugastor taurus (Craugastoridae) in Costa Rica. Tropical Conservation Science 7:628-638. PDF
Catenazzi, A., E. Lehr, and VT Vredenburg. 2014. Thermal Physiology, Disease, and Amphibian Declines on the Eastern Slopes of the Andes. Conservation Biology 28:509-517. PDF
Bishop*, M. R., R. C. Drewes, and VT Vredenburg. 2014. Food Web Linkages Demonstrate Importance of Terrestrial Prey for the Threatened California Red-Legged Frog. Journal of Herpetology 48:137-143. PDF
Murrieta-Galindo,R, G Parra-Olea, A González-Romero, F López-Barrera, and VT Vredenburg. 2014. Detection of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in amphibians inhabiting cloud forests and coffee agroecosystems in central Veracruz, Mexico. European Journal of Wildlife Research:1-9. PDF
2013
Huss, M., L. Huntley, VT Vredenburg, J. Johns, and S. Green. 2013. Prevalence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in 120 Archived Specimens of Lithobates catesbeianus (American Bullfrog) Collected in California, 1924–2007. EcoHealth 10:339-343. PDF
Vredenburg VT, Felt SA, Morgan* EC, McNally* SVG, Wilson* S, SL Green 2013 Prevalence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Xenopus Collected in Africa (1871–2000) and in California (2001–2010). PLoS ONE 8(5): e63791. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0063791. PDF
Catenazzi, A, von May, R, and VT Vredenburg. 2013 High prevalence of infection in tadpoles increases vulnerability to fungal pathogen in high-Andean amphibians. Biological Conservation 159:413-421. PDF
2012
Vredenburg VT, du Preez L, Raharivololoniaina L, Vieites DR, Vences M, Weldon C 2012 A molecular survey across Madagascar does not yield positive records of the amphibian chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. Herpetology Notes 5:507-517. PDF
Woodhams, DC, Geiger, CC, Reinert, LK, Rollins-Smith, LA, Lam, BA, Harris, RN, Briggs, CJ, Vredenburg, VT; Voyles, J 2012 Treatment of amphibians with chytrid fungus: learning from failed trials with itraconizole, antimicrobial peptides, bacteria, and heat therapy. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 98:11-25. PDF
Voyles J, Vredenburg VT, Tunstall TS, Parker JM, Briggs CJ, Rosenblum EB 2012 Pathophysiology in mountain yellow-legged frogs (Rana muscosa) during a chytridiomycosis outbreak. PLoS ONE 7(4): e35374. PDF
Reeder, NMM, AP Pessier, VT Vredenburg 2012 A reservoir species for the emerging amphibian pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis thrives in a landscape decimated by disease. PLoS ONE 7(3): e33567, PDF
2011
Swei, A, JJL Rowley, D Rödder, MLL Diesmos, AC Diesmos, CJ Briggs, R Brown, TT Cao, TL Cheng, B Han, J Hero, DH Hoang, MD Kusrini, TTD Le, M Meegaskumbura, T Neang, SPhimmack, D Rao, NMM Reeder, SD Schoville, N Sivongxay, N Srei, M Stöck, B Stuart, L Torres, TAD Tran, TS Tunstall, D Vieites, and VT Vredenburg 2011 Is Chytridiomycosis an Emerging Infectious Disease in Asia? PLoS ONE 6(8): e23179. PDF
Cheng, TL, S Rovito, DB Wake and VT Vredenburg Coincident mass extinction of neotropical amphibians with the emergence of the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis 2011 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108(23):9502-9507. PDF
Review of Cheng et al 2011: Lips KR 2011 Museum collections: Mining the past to manage the future Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 108(23):9323-9324. PDF
Cheng, et al. 2011 won the Best Student Paper Award at the Ecological Society of America general meeting 2011.
Schoville, SD, TS Tustall, VT Vredenburg, AR Backlin, DA Wood, RN Fisher 2011 Conservation of evolutionary lineages of the endangered mountain yellow-legged frog, Rana muscosa (Amphibia: Ranidae), in southern California Biological Conservation 144:2031-2040. PDF
Reeder, NMM, TL Cheng, VT Vredenburg, and DC Blackburn 2011 Survey of the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis from montane and lowland frogs in eastern Nigeria Herpetology Notes 4:83-86. PDF
Catenazzi A, E Lehr, LO Rodriguez, and VT Vredenburg 2011 Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and the collapse of anuran species richness and abundance in the upper Manu National Park, southeastern Peru Conservation Biology 25: 382-391. PDF
2010
Catenazzi, A, VT Vredenburg, and E Lehr 2010 Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in the live frog trade of Telmatobius (Anura: Ceratophryidae) in the Tropical Andes Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 92:187-191. PDF
Blackburn, DC, B J Evans, AP Pessier, VT Vredenburg 2010 An enigmatic mass mortality event in the only population of the Critically Endangered Cameroonian frog Xenopus longipes (Anura: Pipidae) African Journal of Herpetology 59:1-12. PDF
Vredenburg, VT, LM Chan, T Tunstall, and JM Romansic 2010 Does UV-B radiation affet embryos of three high-elevation amphibian species in California? Copeia 2010:502–512. PDF
Lam, BA, J B Walke, VT Vredenburg, and RN Harris 2010 Proportion of individuals with anti-Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis skin bacteria is associated with population persistence in the frog Rana muscosa Biological Conservation 143 (2010):529-531. PDF
Vredenburg, VT, RA Knapp, T Tunstall, and CJ Briggs 2010 Dynamics of an emerging disease drive large-scale amphibian population extinctions Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107:9689-9694. PDF
Reviews and other significant citations of Vredenburg et al 2010:
Blaustein, AR and PTJ Johnson 2010 When an infection turns lethal Nature 461:881-882. PDF
Jeremy, A 2010 Epidemiology: It’s not easy being green Nature Reviews Microbiology 8:467. PDF
Kinney, V C, J L Heemeyer, A P Pessier, and M J Lannoo 2011 Seasonal pattern of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection and mortality in lithobates areolatus: Affirmation of Vredenburg's "10,000 zoospore rule" PLoS ONE 6(3):e16708. PDF
Briggs, CJ, RA Knapp, and VT Vredenburg 2010 Enzootic and epizootic dynamics of the chytrid fungal pathogen of amphibians Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107:9695-9700. PDF
2009
Harris, RN, RM Brucker, JB Walke, MH Becker, CR Schwantes, DC Flaherty, BA Lam, DC Woodhams, CJ Briggs, VT Vredenburg, KPC Minbiole 2009 Skin microbes on frogs prevent morbidity and mortality caused by a lethal skin fungus The ISME Journal 3:818-824. PDF
2008
Wake, DB, and VT Vredenburg 2008 Are we in the midst of the sixth mass extinction? A view from the world's amphibians Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105:11466-11473. PDF
FrÍas-Álvarez P, VT Vredenburg, M Familiar-Lopez, JE Longcore , E Gonzalez-Bernal, G Santos-Berrera, L Zambrano, and G Parra-Olea 2008 Chytridiomycosis survey in wild and captive Mexican amphibians EcoHealth 5: 18-26. PDF
2007
Morgan, JAT, VT Vredenburg, LJ Rachowicz, RA Knapp, MJ Stice, T Tunstall, RE Bingham, JM Parker, JE Longcore, C Moritz, CJ Briggs, JW Taylor 2007 Population genetics of the frog killing fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(34): 13845-13850. PDF
Woodhams, DC, VT Vredenburg, M Simon, D Billheimer, B Shakhtour, Y Shyr, CJ Briggs, LA Rollins-Smith, RN Harris 2007 Symbiotic bacteria contribute to innate immune defenses of the threatened mountain yellow-legged frog, Rana muscosa Biological Conservation 138: 390-398. PDF
Finlay, JC and VT Vredenburg 2007 Introduced trout sever trophic connections in watersheds: consequences for a declining amphibian Ecology 88(9): 2187-2198. PDF
Vredenburg, VT, R Bingham, R Knapp, JAT Morgan, C Moritz, and D Wake 2007 Concordant molecular and phenotypic data delineate new taxonomy and conservation priorities for the endangered mountain yellow-legged frog (Ranidae: Rana muscosa) Journal of Zoology 271(4): 361-374. PDF
Knapp, RA, DM Boiano, and VT Vredenburg 2007 Recovery of a declining amphibian (mountain yellow-legged frog, Rana muscosa) following removal of nonnative fish Biological Conservation 135: 11-20. PDF
2006
Rollins-Smith, LA, DC Woodhams, LK Reinert, VT Vredenburg, CJ Briggs, PF Nielsen, and JM Conlon 2006 Antimicrobial Peptide Defenses of the Mountain Yellow-Legged Frog (Rana muscosa) Developmental & Comparative Immunology 30(9): 831-842. PDF
Rachowicz, LJ, RA Knapp, JAT Morgan, MJ Stice, VT Vredenburg, JM Parker and CJ Briggs 2006 Emerging infectious disease as a proximate cause of amphibian mass mortality Ecology 87(7): 1671-1683. PDF
2005
Briggs, C, VT Vredenburg, RA Knapp, and LJ Rachowicz 2005 Investigating the population-level effects of chytridiomycosis, a fungal disease of amphibians Ecology 86(12):3149-3159. PDF
Rachowicz, LJ, JM Hero, JAT Morgan, VT Vredenburg, J Taylor, CJ Briggs 2005 The novel and endemic pathogen hypothesis: explanations for the origin of an emerging infectious disease of wildlife Conservation Biology 19(5):1441-1448. PDF
2004
Vredenburg, VT 2004 Reversing introduced species effects: Experimental removal of introduced fish leads to rapid recovery of declining frog Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101(20):7646-7650. PDF
Rachowicz, LJ and VT Vredenburg 2004 Transmission of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis within and between amphibian life stages Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 61:75-83. PDF
2001
Vredenburg, VT, T Tunstall, H Nguyen, J Romansic, S Schoville. 2001 Hydromantes platycephalus (Mt. Lyell Salamander) Behavior Herpetological Review 32:178. PDF
Macey, JR J Stasburg, J Brisson, VT Vredenburg, M Jennings, and A Larson 2001 Molecular phylogenetics of western North American frogs of the Rana boylii species group Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 19(1):131-143, PDF
Vredenburg, VT, and AP Summers 2001 Field Identification of chytridiomycosis in Rana muscosa Herpetological Review 32:151-152. PDF
2000
Vredenburg, VT 2000 Natural History Notes: Rana muscosa (mountain yellow-legged frog), conspecific egg predation Herpetological Review 31:170-171. PDF
Vredenburg, V T, Y Wang, and G Fellers 2000 Scientific meeting raises awareness of amphibian decline in Asia FrogLog 42: 2-3.
1998
Knapp, R A, V T Vredenburg, and K M Matthews 1998 Effects of stream channel morphology on golden trout spawning habitat and recruitment Ecological Applications 8(4):1104-1117.
1996
Knapp, RA, and VT Vredenburg 1996 A field comparison of the substrate composition of golden trout redds using two sampling techniques North American Journal of Fisheries Management 16:674-681.
Knapp, RA, and VT Vredenburg 1996 Spawning by California golden trout: characteristics of spawning fish, seasonal and daily timing, redd characteristics, and microhabitat preferences Transactions of the North American Fisheries Society 125(4):519-531.
1995
Knapp, RA, PC Sikkel, and VT Vredenburg 1995 Age of clutches in nests and the with-in nest spawning-site preferences of three damselfish species (Pomacentridae) Copeia (1995):78-88
BOOK CHAPTERS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Catenazzi A, von May R, Vredenburg, VT (2013) Conservation of the high Andean frog Telmatobius jelskii along the Peru LNG pipeline in the regions of Ayacucho and Huancavelica, Peru. Chap. 17, in: Monitoring Biodiversity: Lessons from a Transandean megaproject. A. Alonso, F. Dallmeier and G. Servat (Eds.) Smithsonian Institution Press,Washington DC.
Whittaker K, Koo MS, Wake DB, and Vredenburg VT. 2013 Global Declines of Amphibians. In: Levin S.A. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, second edition, Volume 3, pp. 691-699. Waltham, MA: Academic Press.
Vredenburg, VT, CJ Briggs, and RN Harris. 2011. Host-pathogen dynamics of amphibian chytridiomycosis: The role of the skin microbiome in health and disease In Fungal diseases: An emerging threat to human, animal and plant health, edited by L. Olsen, ER Choffnes, DA Relman and L Pray. Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press IOM (Institute of Medicine). Pp. 342-355.
Cheng, TL, S Rovito, DB Wake and VT Vredenburg 2011 Museum specimens reveal spread of pathogen and collapse of amphibians in Central America Froglog 101: 18-22
Swei, A, JJL Rowley, D Rödder, MLL Diesmos, AC Diesmos, CJ Briggs, R Brown, TT Cao, TL Cheng, B Han, J Hero, DH Hoang, MD Kusrini, TTD Le, M Meegaskumbura, T Neang, SPhimmack, D Rao, NMM Reeder, SD Schoville, N Sivongxay, N Srei, M Stöck, B Stuart, L Torres, TAD Tran, TS Tunstall, D Vieites, and VT Vredenburg. 2012. Prevalence and distribution of chytridiomycosis throughout Asia FroLog 98: 22-24
Vredenburg, VT, M McDonald, & T Sayre (2010) Amphibians and Climate Change Natural Selections 6(1):10-12
Vredenburg, VT, MS Koo, and DB Wake 2008 Declines of amphibians in California In Hoffman, M (Ed), Threatened Amphibians of the World Lynx Ediciones, Barcelona, Spain, pp 126
Vredenburg, VT, G Fellers, and C Davidson 2005 The mountain yellow-legged frog (Rana muscosa) In Lannoo, MJ (Ed), Status and Conservation of US Amphibians University of California Press, Berkeley, California, USA, pp 563-566