How should environmental stress affect the population dynamics of disease

By K. Lafferty, Robert D. Holt. 2003

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Subfields: Genetics, Modeling and Simulation, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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HOST STARVATION DECREASES PARASITE LOAD AND MEAN HOST SIZE IN EXPERIMENTAL POPULATIONS (2004, background): “The effects of stress on host vital rates may interact with effects of stress on host susceptibility and lead to either a negative, positive, convex, or concave relationship between stress and disease (Lafferty and Holt 2003).”
Thermal Stress and Coral Cover as Drivers of Coral Disease Outbreaks (2007, background): “In such cases, the relationship between stress and disease severity is generally predicted to be positive [8] (Figure 3).”
ARE DISEASES INCREASING IN THE OCEAN (2004, background): “Such a relationship underscores the point that effects of stress and infectious disease at the population level cannot necessarily be predicted from their effects on individuals ( Lafferty & Holt 2003 ).”
Seasonality and the dynamics of infectious diseases. (2006, background): “For example, stress associated with harsh winters, combined with the competitive social interactions that occur at high population densities, can impair immune defences and allow pathogens to enhance the background seasonally induced mortality (Lafferty & Holt 2003).”
Climate change and disease: bleaching of a chemically defended seaweed (2011, background): “As well as affecting host susceptibility, environmental change can also have direct and indirect impacts on pathogens (Lafferty & Holt, 2003).”
Eutrophication science: where do we go from here? (2009, background): “However, little is known about feedbacks in the other direction: can epidemic disease in aquatic systems exacerbate eutrophication?Suchascenariomightresultfromdiseasesaffectingthestructureoffoodchains,possiblytriggeringatrophic cascade (Box 1). More research thus is needed on the mechanisms by which”
Effects of species diversity on disease risk. (2006, background): “…(prey or mutualist) for the host species could decrease host stress, which could increase the efficacy of the immune response, thus resulting in a lower pathogen load and lower probability of transmission (for alternative 2006 Blackwell Publishing Ltd/CNRS scenarios, see Lafferty & Holt 2003).”
Scuba diving damage and intensity of tourist activities increases coral disease prevalence (2014, background): “Sediment could act as both a disease reservoir and potentially a vector when resuspended as a result of tourist-related activities, and could also increase the likelihood of infection by stressing coral hosts (Lafferty and Holt, 2003; Pollock et al., 2014).”
Drought‐induced mosquito outbreaks in wetlands (2003, background): “However, a variety of other factors associated with the epidemiology of disease transmission will also vary from year to year, such as changes in the stress experienced by the host populations (Lafferty & Holt 2003), or changes in host behaviour and immunity (Shaman et al. 2002).”
Temperature affects coral disease resistance and pathogen growth (2007, background): “In some cases, hosts may become more susceptible to infection while in others they are released from infection (Harvell et al. 2002, Lafferty & Holt 2003).”
Effects of environmental change on helminth infections in amphibians: exploring the emergence of Ribeiroia and Echinostoma infections in North America. (2009, neutral): “…change, and the product of host abundance, host physiological condition, spatial and temporal interactions among hosts, the abundance and composition of the parasite community, and the effect of environmental conditions on the parasite’s free-living stages (e.g., Lafferty and Holt 2003) .”
Climate change effects on plant disease: genomes to ecosystems. (2006, background): “Since then, modelers have developed approaches for scaling from the coarse GCM predictions down to the smaller scales at which plant disease epidemics are more typically studied (14, 129, 130) and for scaling up from small-scale predictions (5, 33, 68, 79, 105).”
Human land use and patterns of parasitism in tropical amphibian hosts (2007, neutral): “vertebrates (Marcogliese et al., 1990; Moser and Cowen, 1991; Lafferty and Holt, 2003; Johnson and Chase, 2004).”
Effects of logging on gastrointestinal parasite infections and infection risk in African primates (2005, background): “As with other related sympatric species, Kibale’s primates may act as reservoirs, maintaining a high infection risk by parasites that may be detrimental to redtail guenons, even as redtail guenon densities decline (McCallum & Dobson 2002; Lafferty & Holt 2003).”
Parasites in the food web: linking amphibian malformations and aquatic eutrophication (2004, background): “Eutrophication is generally 2004 Blackwell Publishing Ltd/CNRS expected to decrease the impact of infection on hosts (e.g. Lafferty & Holt 2003).”
Chytrid infections and diatom spring blooms: paradoxical effects of climate warming on fungal epidemics in lakes (2011, background): “2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Freshwater Biology, 56, 754–766 The complexities of environmental effects on host– parasite interactions have been investigated by Lafferty & Holt (2003) in an analytical model.”