Climate change influences on marine infectious diseases: implications for management and society
Burge, C.A.; Eakin, C.M.; Friedman, C.S.; Froelich, B.; Hershberger, P.K.; Hofmann, E.E.; Petes, L.E.; Prager, K.C.; Weil, E.; Willis, B.L.; Ford, S.E.; Harvell, C.D. (2014). Climate change influences on marine infectious diseases: implications for management and society, in: Carlson, C.A. et al. Ann. Rev. Mar. Sci. 6. Annual Review of Marine Science, 6: pp. 249-277. https://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-marine-010213-135029 In: Carlson, C.A.; Giovannoni, S.J. (Ed.) (2014). Ann. Rev. Mar. Sci. 6. Annual Review of Marine Science, 6. Annual Reviews: Palo Alto. ISBN 978-0-8243-4506-8. 487 pp., more In: Annual Review of Marine Science. Annual Reviews: Palo Alto, Calif. ISSN 1941-1405; e-ISSN 1941-0611, more |  |
| Keyword | | | Author keywords | epizootics, mass mortalities, health, oceans, ocean warming |
| Authors | | Top | - Burge, C.A.
- Eakin, C.M.
- Friedman, C.S.
- Froelich, B.
| - Hershberger, P.K.
- Hofmann, E.E.
- Petes, L.E.
- Prager, K.C.
| - Weil, E.
- Willis, B.L.
- Ford, S.E.
- Harvell, C.D.
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| Abstract | Infectious diseases are common in marine environments, but the effects of a changing climate on marine pathogens are not well understood. Here we review current knowledge about how the climate drives host-pathogen interactions and infectious disease outbreaks. Climate-related impacts on marine diseases are being documented in corals, shellfish, finfish, and humans; these impacts are less clearly linked for other organisms. Oceans and people are inextricably linked, and marine diseases can both directly and indirectly affect human health, livelihoods, and well-being. We recommend an adaptive management approach to better increase the resilience of ocean systems vulnerable to marine diseases in a changing climate. Land-based management methods of quarantining, culling, and vaccinating are not successful in the ocean; therefore, forecasting conditions that lead to outbreaks and designing tools/approaches to influence these conditions may be the best way to manage marine disease. |
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