Document of bibliographic reference 287705

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Bibliographic resource

Type of document

Journal article

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AS

Title

The butterfly effect: parasite diversity, environment, and emerging disease in aquatic wildlife

Abstract

Aquatic wildlife is increasingly subjected to emerging diseases often due to perturbations of the existing dynamic balance between hosts and their parasites. Accelerating changes in environmental factors, together with anthropogenic translocation of hosts and parasites, act synergistically to produce hard-to-predict disease outcomes in freshwater and marine systems. These outcomes are further complicated by the intimate links between diseases in wildlife and diseases in humans and domestic animals. Here, we explore the interactions of parasites in aquatic wildlife in terms of their biodiversity, their response to environmental change, their emerging diseases, and the contribution of humans and domestic animals to parasitic disease outcomes. This work highlights the clear need for interdisciplinary approaches to ameliorate disease impacts in aquatic wildlife systems.

WebOfScience code

https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000353748000008

Bibliographic citation

Adlard, R.D.; Miller, T.L.; Smit, N.J. (2015). The butterfly effect: parasite diversity, environment, and emerging disease in aquatic wildlife. Trends Parasitol. 31(4): 160-166. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2014.11.001

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true