ME018
Understanding and Managing Marine Diseases in a Changing Ocean
Session ID#: 258460
Session Description:
Marine systems face mounting pressure from multiple environmental stressors, including pathogens and a warming ocean, which often work in tandem and can threaten the health and persistence of marine species. Disease outbreaks in our ocean significantly impact the physiology, growth, distribution, and interactions of valuable marine organisms and habitats, spanning from seagrasses to sea stars. Further, marine heatwaves, which are increasing frequency and duration, can further stress host organisms and heighten disease impacts, threatening the survival of hosts and coastal communities. Many aspects of marine disease ecology—including quantifying pathogen transmission rates in nature, particularly in the open ocean, and comprehensive analyses of disease impacts—are poorly understood. Here, we aim to bring together diverse work that broadly addresses marine diseases in rapidly changing environments, including but not limited to field, lab, or modeling studies that examine impacts of multiple environmental and/or anthropogenic stressors on disease processes, seasonal dynamics of disease transmission, and impacts of diseases on marine ecosystems. By convening differing marine disease ecology perspectives, we hope to collectively provide a synthesis of current understanding of marine disease processes, methods, impacts, and management strategies.
Co-Sponsor(s):
Index Terms:
0232 Impacts of climate change: ecosystem health [GEOHEALTH]
0245 Vector-borne diseases [GEOHEALTH]
4327 Resilience [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4815 Ecosystems, structure, dynamics, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL]
Primary Chair: Olivia Graham, Cornell University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ithaca, NY, United States
Co-chairs: Maya L. Groner, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, United States, Alyssa Gehman, Hakai Institute, Campbell River, BC, Canada and Drew Harvell, Cornell University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ithaca, NY, United States
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Effects of Temperature, Source Population and Molt phenology on Epizootic Shell Disease Dynamics and Survival of American Lobster (Homarus americanus) (2027110)
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Vibrio pectenicida Strain FHCF-3 is a Causative Agent of Sea Star Wasting Disease (2029489)
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within a tropical watershed (2033041)
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