In the spring, adult toads move several hundred meters from the surrounding hills to the breeding site in Seminole Lake to spawn, commonly swimming more than 80 m across the lake to the breeding congress. When artificially displaced from the breeding . . .

Nearly 300 amphibian species are known to have been infected with Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), the fungal pathogen that causes the severe skin infection chytridiomycosis. This infection is implicated in the extinction of over 100 species. Bact . . .