The elusive baseline of marine disease: Are diseases in ocean ecosystems increasing?

PLoS Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Ward, Jessica R ^a   Lafferty, Kevin D ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; FISH DISEASE; MAMMAL; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; PARASITE; POLICY; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SEA URCHIN; SEAGRASS; SHARK; TAXONOMY; TURTLE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANTHOZOA; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FISH; METHODOLOGY; SEA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANTHOZOA; CHONDRICHTHYES; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ECHINODERMATA; ECHINOIDEA; HALOPHILA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; MOLLUSCA; PISCES; TESTUDINES; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CLASSIFICATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FISH DISEASES; FISHES; MARINE BIOLOGY; OCEANS AND SEAS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 19344377447     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020120     Document Type: Article

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