The rising tide of ocean diseases: unsolved problems and research priorities

By Drew Harvell, R. Aronson, N. Baron, J. Connell, A. Dobson, Stephen P. Ellner, L. Gerber, Kiho Kim, A. Kuris, Hamish McCallum and 7 more. 2004

300 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Immunology

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In Ecology

1. Michael Lesser
2. Ruth D. Gates
3. O. Hoegh‐Guldberg
4. E. Weil
5. J. Bythell
6. S. Paull
7. T. McClanahan
8. C. Linares

In Global and Planetary Change

1. S. Paull
2. T. McClanahan
3. Michael Lesser
4. Ruth D. Gates
5. C. Linares
6. E. Weil
7. D. Díaz
8. M. Zabala

In Immunology

1. O. Hoegh‐Guldberg
2. E. Weil
3. T. McClanahan
4. V. Smith
5. Michael Lesser
6. Joseph M. Maina
7. J. Bythell
8. A. Cróquer

Citations in the corpus

• Are infectious diseases really killing corals? Alternative interpretations of the experimental and ecological data (2007, background): “, 1999), and outbreaks have been reported in a broad range of marine taxa including corals (Harvell et al. 2004; Lafferty et al., 2004; Ward and Lafferty, 2004).”
• Application of remote sensing and GIS inland use/land cover mapping and change detection in a part of south western Nigeria (2007, background): “Until causative agents are identified, and the role of different factors affecting coral reefs understood, an effective management approach appears to be very difficult (Harvell et al., 2004).”
• The ecology and emergence of diseases in fresh waters (2011, background): “Despite widespread concerns over disease emergence in wildlife (e.g. Daszak et al., 2000; Harvell et al., 2004), few efforts have specifically explored patterns related to freshwater diseases.”
• Is Marine Mammal Health Deteriorating? Trends in the Global Reporting of Marine Mammal Disease (2007, background): “Marine diseases, particularly those that cause large-scale die-offs, can alter population distribution and abundance, and cause major regime changes within marine communities (Harvell et al., 2004; Kim et al., 2005).”
• Temporal changes in benthic assemblages on Florida Keys reefs 11 years after the 1997/1998 El Niño (2013, background): “…corals associated with global climate change (e.g. decreased calcification, increased disease virulence, and bleaching) are projected to increase (Harvell et al. 2004, Hoegh-Guldberg et al. 2007, Baker et al. 2008), and considering that current environmental conditions and management actions…”
• Immediate and delayed effects of a mass mortality event on gorgonian population dynamics and benthic community structure in the NW Mediterranean Sea (2005, background): “Diseases and mass mortalities of organisms have been increasingly reported in several marine ecosystems (e.g. Epstein et al. 1998, Harvell et al. 2002, 2004, Kim & Harvell 2004, Ward et al. 2004).”
• Strong relationship between coral bleaching and growth anomalies in massive Porites (2009, background): “Coral bleaching and diseases are rapidly emerging problems on coral reefs (Harvell et al., 1999, 2004; Hoegh-Guldberg, 1999; Porter et al., 2001; Rosenberg & Loya, 2004; Weil et al., 2006; Lesser et al., 2007), and becoming the predominant threats to their ecological health (McClanahan, 2002; Weil,…”
• Coral disease following massive bleaching in 2005 causes 60% decline in coral cover on reefs in the US Virgin Islands (2009, background): “The number of described coral diseases and the number of documented cases have increased exponentially since the first description (Harvell et al. 2004; Lafferty et al. 2004).”
• Eutrophication science: where do we go from here? (2009, background): “Eutrophication and infectious disease risk There might also be direct linkages between eutrophication anddiseaserisk.Water-relateddiseasesareamajorcauseof human morbidity and mortality worldwide [32], and recent evidence suggests that diseases can cause major impacts among aquatic organisms [ 33 ].”
• Temporal variability and impact of coral diseases and bleaching in La Parguera, Puerto Rico from 2003–2007 (2009, background): “…coral species, the environmental conditions and sensibility of hosts and/or pathogens to disturbed environments, or combination of these and other factors (Harvell et al. 1999; 2004; Weil et al. 2006; Raymundo et al 2006; Bruno et al. 2007; Cróquer and Weil 2009a,b; Bruckner and Hill 2009).”
• Biodiversity inhibits parasites: Broad evidence for the dilution effect (2015, unknown): “Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 100(2):567–571.”