NCEAS Working Groups
The ecology of marine diseases
Project Description
The working group on marine diseases will bring together researchers working with diverse diseases of marine organisms with theoreticians and statisticians.
Epidemiological studies of diseases in marine systems have been rare and there is a paucity of information regarding even the most basic properties of marine pathogens
(e.g. identity, host-specificity) and factors (e.g. environmental correlates) affecting disease processes (Harvell et al. 1999). In particular, little is known about the
mechanisms of either disease transmission or host resistance and their roles in facilitating disease outbreaks. Although theoretical and experimental practices developed to
model infectious disease in humans (Anderson & May 1991),wildlife (Daszak et al. 2000) and agricultural systems (Real 1996) have provided some useful insight, the
applicability of these "terrestrial" models to comparatively more open system like the ocean is not known. Moreover, knowledge of mechanisms of host resistance among
marine invertebrates is effectively a black box; we lack understanding of basic disease resistance mechanisms and their interaction with environmental stressors. Using a
few well studied host-pathogen interactions or those with long-term monitoring data, we will 1) synthesize what is currently know about marine diseases and their
environmental drivers, 2) develop new epidemiological theory for analysis of marine diseases, and 3) review differences between disease ecology in marine and terrestrial habitats, including the consequences of spill-over of infectious micro-organisms from farmed into wild populations.
Principal Investigator(s)
Drew Harvell
Project Dates
Start: August 8, 2000
End: November 3, 2002
completed
Participants
- Donald M. Anderson
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- Richard B. Aronson
- Dauphin Island Sea Laboratory
- Nancy Baron
- SeaWeb/COMPASS
- Ottar N. Bjornstad
- Pennsylvania State University
- John F. Bruno
- Unknown
- Joseph H. Connell
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Patty Debenham
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Andrew P. Dobson
- Princeton University
- Stephen P. Ellner
- North Carolina State University
- Susan E. Ford
- State University of New Jersey, Rutgers
- Leah R. Gerber
- Arizona State University
- Frances Gulland
- Marine Mammal Center
- Drew Harvell
- Cornell University
- Eileen Hofmann
- Old Dominion University
- Parviez R. Hosseini
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Kiho Kim
- University of Maryland, College Park
- Katia Koelle
- University of Michigan
- Armand Kuris
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Kevin D. Lafferty
- US Geological Survey (USGS)
- Hamish McCallum
- University of Queensland
- Bruce McKay
- SeaWeb
- Robin M. Overstreet
- Mercedes Pascual
- University of Maryland
- Virginia Pasour
- Cornell University
- James W. Porter
- Unknown
- Eric Powell
- State University of New Jersey, Rutgers
- Shane A. Richards
- University of Calgary
- Garriet Smith
- University of South Carolina, Aiken
- Kathryn Sutherland
- University of Georgia
- Jessica R. Ward
- Cornell University
Products
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Journal Article / 2002
Size structure and geographic variation in chemical resistance of sea fan corals (Gorgonia ventalina) to a fungal pathogen
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Report or White Paper / 2001
Biodiversity and health for the workshop on conceptual tools for the developing biodiversity scenarios (April 19-21, Trinidad)
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Presentations / 2002
Climate change and coral reefs
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Presentations / 2002
Climate change seminar series, November 2002
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Presentations / 2002
Climate warming and disease impacts
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Journal Article / 2002
Climate warming and disease risks for terrestrial and marine biota
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Presentations / 2002
Topic: Ocean Diseases
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Presentations / 2003
Sick seafans by the seashore: Climate change and coral resistance in disease, November 2003
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Presentations / 2003
The rising tide of ocean diseases: Unsolved problems and research priorities
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Presentations / 2003
Topic: Ocean Diseases
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Presentations / 2003
Topic: Ocean Diseases
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Presentations / 2004
Climate change and ecology of seafan resistance to disease
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Journal Article / 2004
The rising tide of ocean diseases: Unsolved problems and research priorities
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Presentations / 2004
The role of inducible resistance in the seafan fungal epizootic, June 2004
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Presentations / 2005
Health of the oceans: What should our priorities be?
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Presentations /
Climate change and coral
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Presentations /
Coral disease and climate warming
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Journal Article / 2002
Disease transmission of aspergillosis in sea fans: Inferring process from spatial pattern
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Journal Article / 2004
The rise and fall of a six-year coral-fungal epizootic
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Book Chapter / 2005
Diseases and the conservation of marine diversity
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Journal Article / 2004
Disentangling extrinsic from intrinsic factors in disease dynamics: A nonlinear time series approach with an application to cholera
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Journal Article / 2004
Are diseases increasing in the ocean?
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Journal Article / 2002
Disease, habitat fragmentation and conservation
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Journal Article / 2003
Rates of spread of marine pathogens
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Journal Article / 2004
Does terrestrial epidemiology apply to marine systems?
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Journal Article / 2002
Cholera and climate: Revisiting the quantitative evidence
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Journal Article / 2004
The elusive baseline of marine disease: Are diseases in ocean ecosystems increasing?