Warmer Is Deadlier: A Meta-Analysis Reveals Increasing Temperatures Accentuate Disease Effects on Fisheries Hosts

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• Journal Title:
  Ecology Letters
• Personal Author:
  Stefanak, Matthew P. ; Schott, Eric J. ; Woodland, Ryan J.
• NOAA Program & Office:
  Sea Grant
• Sea Grant Program:
  GAUS (Georgia Sea Grant), NSGO/NSGLC (National Sea Grant College Program Office)
• Description:
  We conducted a meta-analysis using 266 effect sizes from 52 empirical papers on harvested aquatic species and determined the relationship between parasite-induced host mortality and temperature and host density. Results demonstrate that warmer temperatures significantly accentuate the effects of disease on fisheries hosts, with increasing temperatures consistently associated with higher parasite-induced mortality across taxa and pathogen types. These findings have important implications for forecasting disease impacts on commercially important fish and shellfish species under climate warming scenarios.
• Keywords:
  Aquaculture Climatic Changes Fisheries Meta-analysis Parasites Temperature Climatic Changes Aquatic Disease Climate Change Disease Ecology, Temperature Fisheries Hosts Host Mortality

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• Source:
  Ecology Letters 28, no. 7: e70156
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70156
• Format:
  PDF
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  Grant no. NA180AR417008 ; Grant no. NA16NOS4190165
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC BY-NC
• Compliance:
  Submitted
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  urn:sha-512:ecf26c121372940a91f9bf2a499c835011d19c5b454820cac794ba256906218013545731ac4e65f6582e17f3099247541369397b7848f199ecc51d5946bda810
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