
Sunlight-heated artificial refugia can enable endangered frogs to clear chytridiomycosis infections and develop resistance, providing a simple and cost-effective strategy to help amphibians coexist with this devastating disease.


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Artificial thermal refugia—sites heated to temperatures higher than that of the surrounding environment—provide a way to protect an endangered Australian frog species from a fungal disease that has caused the extinction of many amphibians.

Hotspot shelters stimulate frog resistance to chytridiomycosis - Nature

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Artificial Refugia Help Endangered Frogs Overcome Chytridiomycosis, a Deadly Fungal Disease
