Scientists searched for threatened Australian rainforest frogs without seeing or hearing them; DNA in creek water collected up to 22 km downstream revealed populations in places where the frogs had disappeared
- Photos of a study species: the Australian Lace-lid (L.
- In the cool, wet upland streams of Queensland’s Wet Tropics, several species of rainforest frog were pushed to the brink in the 1980s and 1990s by chytrid fungus, an aquatic pathogen that attacks frog skin and has driven extinctions worldwide.
- For decades, researchers lacked clear data on whether some of these species still persisted in remote creeks or had vanished entirely.
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- Photos of a study species: the Australian Lace-lid (L.
- In the cool, wet upland streams of Queensland’s Wet Tropics, several species of rainforest frog were pushed to the brink in the 1980s and 1990s by chytrid fungus, an aquatic pathogen that attacks frog skin and has driven extinctions worldwide.
- For decades, researchers lacked clear data on whether some of these species still persisted in remote creeks or had vanished entirely.
Sources: Times of India