Volume 14, Number 7—July 2008
Letter
Anthropogenic Influence on Prevalence of 2 Amphibian Pathogens
Valerie St-Amour*, Wai M. Wong†, Trenton W.J. Garner†, and David Lesbarrères*
Table
General linear models for the relationships of amphibian emerging infectious disease prevalence and anthropogenic variables
| Data point | Degrees of freedom | Ranavirus |
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean squares | F value | MS | F value | |||
| Intercept | 1 | 0.06 | 8.47 (p<0.05) | 0.05 | 4.61 (p<0.1) | |
| Human disturbance | 1 | 0.24 | 35.35 (p<0.01) | 0.0009 | 0.08 | |
| Distance to road | 1 | 0.03 | 4.11 (p<0.1) | 0.03 | 2.82 | |
| Distance to industry | 1 | 0.06 | 8.82 (p<0.05) | 0.07 | 5.89 (p<0.1) | |
| Distance to housing | 1 | 0.06 | 8.08 (p<0.05) | 0.06 | 4.87 (p<0.1) | |
| Error | 5 | 0.01 | 0.01 | |||
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