In:
Annual Review of Marine Science, Annual Reviews, Vol. 6, No. 1 ( 2014-01-03), p. 249-277
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.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1941-1405
,
1941-0611
DOI:
10.1146/marine.2013.6.issue-1
DOI:
10.1146/annurev-marine-010213-135029
Language:
English
Publisher:
Annual Reviews
Publication Date:
2014
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2458404-6
SSG:
12
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