Recurrent outbreaks of disease in sea urchins Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis in Nova Scotia: Evidence for a link with large-scale meteorologic and oceanographic events

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 152, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 155-165

  Scheibling, Robert E ^a   Hennigar, Allan W ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Disease; Mass mortality; Pathogen; Physical oceanography; Rocky subtidal community; Sea urchin; Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis; Temperature

Indexed keywords

DISEASE OUTBREAK; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS; EPIZOOTIC; EPIZOOTICS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PARAMOEBIASIS; ROCKY SHORES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEA URCHIN;

CANADA; NOVA SCOTIA;

ECHINOIDEA; PARAMOEBA; PARAMOEBA INVADENS; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS DROEBACHIENSIS;

EID: 0030747984     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps152155     Document Type: Article

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