Table 1.

Model parameters with full definitions, estimated values, ranges explored and source for each parameter estimate.

parameter	definition	estimated value and units	range	reference
t1	time point at which yearly tadpole cohort born	day 60	—	Smith (1951) and Reading (2003)
t2	time point at which metamorphosis occurs	day 155	day 125–180	Smith (1951) and Reading (2003)
ω	minimum time since metamorphosis before juveniles start to mature into adults	500 days	—	Reading (1991) and Beebee & Griffiths (2000)
ı	ratio of successfully mating couples to total number of adults	0.14 (no units)	0.10–0.17	Reading (2001)
ψ	fecundity (eggs per mated couple)	2000 mated couple−1	400–5000	Reading (1986) and Beebee & Griffiths (2000)
ϵ	rate of per capita maturation of juveniles into adults	0.16 yr−1	0.1–15.0 yr−1	Beebee & Griffiths (2000)
μP	tadpole per capita natural death rate	7.55 yr−1	6.19–9.71 yr−1	Smith (1951) and Reading (2003)
μJ	juvenile per capita natural death rate	0.73 yr−1	0.30–4.00 yr−1	Gittins (1983)
μA	adult per capita natural death rate	0.73 yr−1	0.30–2.25 yr−1	Gittins (1983)
K	constant limiting the maximum adult toad population size	14 000	10 000–40 000	Beebee & Griffiths (2000)
αP	additional per capita death rate in tadpoles due to infection	1.62 yr−1	0–3.25 yr−1	this work
ν	transmission parameter determining per capita rate of infection of tadpoles	6×10−9 zoospore−1 yr−1	2×10−9–5×10−8 zoospore−1 yr−1	this work
ρ	per capita rate of zoospore release from infected tadpoles	1×105 yr−1	1×104–6.6×106 yr−1	this work
μZ	per capita death rate of free-living B. dendrobatidis	13 yr−1	1–365 yr−1	Johnson & Speare (2003)
γ	per capita growth rate of free-living B. dendrobatidis	0 yr−1	0–9000 yr−1	Berger et al. (2005)
φ	constant determining severity of density-dependent regulation of B. dendrobatidis population growth	10−6 zoospore−1	10−10–10−4 zoospore−1	—