Year: 2013
Type: erratum
Abstract: In the October 2011 issue of Conservation Biology (volume 25, issue 5) in “Differential Host Susceptibility to Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, an Emerging Amphibian Pathogen” by Searle et al. (pp. 965–974), an incorrect hazard ratio is reported for one species, the southern toad (Anaxyrus terrestris). In Table 1 (p. 969) the hazard ratio is reported as 171.27 for this species, but this is incorrect. The pathogen-induced mortality rate is so rapid in this species that it violates the assumptions of the Cox proportional hazards model and cannot be accurately estimated. However, our conclusion that southern toads were the most susceptible species is still correct because this was the only species for which mortality in the Bd-exposed treatments was this rapid.
Source: Conservation Biology
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12101
Language: English
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4244923365