FISHING FOR LOBSTERS INDIRECTLY INCREASES EPIDEMICS IN SEA URCHINS

By K. Lafferty. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Oceanography

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In Ecology

1. K. Lafferty
2. J. Vásquez
3. Jennifer A. Dunne
4. B. Willis
5. A. Kuris
6. Pieter T. J. Johnson
7. S. Ford
8. A. Dobson

In Oceanography

1. J. Vásquez
2. Maria Byrne
3. A. Buschmann
4. Michael D. Behrens
5. K. Lafferty
6. J. Porter
7. S. Ford
8. M. Krkošek

Citations in the corpus

• Food webs and parasites in a salt marsh ecosystem. (2006, methodology): “Similarly, predators can keep sea urchin populations at low levels, but where fishing reduces urchin predators, urchins become abundant and bacterial epidemics are more common (Lafferty 2004).”
• GLOBAL ECOLOGY OF THE GIANT KELP MACROCYSTIS : FROM ECOTYPES TO ECOSYSTEMS (2007, background): “The ecological impacts of overfishing on Macrocystis populations are unclear because some correlative studies suggest cascading impacts whereas others do not (Foster & Schiel 1988, Dayton et al. 1998, Steneck et al. 2002, Behrens & Lafferty 2004, Lafferty 2004, Graham et al. 2007).”
• ARE DISEASES INCREASING IN THE OCEAN (2004, methodology): “An urchin-specific bacterial disease recently entered the area where urchin densities well exceeded the host-threshold density for transmission; epizootics followed, except in a marine reserve where lobsters were protected ( Lafferty 2004 ).”
• A boom–bust phylum? Ecological and evolutionary consequences of density variations in echinoderms (2009, background): “Sea urchin disease in the high-density populations outside the reserve did not replace the functional role of predators in reducing urchin populations (Behrens and Lafferty 2004, Lafferty 2004).”
• Infectious diseases affect marine fisheries and aquaculture economics. (2015, background): “Fishing reduces host density and can break the transmission of host-specific, density-dependent infectious diseases (Amundsen & Kristoffersen 1990, Dobson & May 1987, Kuris & Lafferty 1992, Ward & Lafferty 2004, Wood et al. 2010).”
• Thermal Stress and Coral Cover as Drivers of Coral Disease Outbreaks (2007, background): “epidemics (but see [34,35]), which has limited our under-”
• Effects of marine reserves and urchin disease on southern Californian rocky reef communities (2004, background): “We defined the prevalence ranks as an ordinal scale based on the percentage of infected urchins (1 = 1 to 25%, 2 = 26 to 50%, 3 = 51 to 75%, 4 = 76 to 100% infected; see Lafferty 2004).”
• Parasites in food webs: the ultimate missing links (2008, background): “For example, where spiny lobsters (predators) are common, they limit the density of sea urchins (prey), thereby reducing the frequency of bacterial epidemics in the urchin population (Lafferty 2004).”
• Host density thresholds and disease control for fisheries and aquaculture (2010, background): “Increases in host abundance due to fishery-induced trophic cascades may increase the rate of disease outbreaks (Lafferty 2004).”