Disease outbreaks associated with recent hurricanes cause mass mortality of sea urchins in Nova Scotia

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 408, Issue , 2010, Pages 109-116

  Scheibling, R E ^a   Feehan, C ^a   Lauzon Guay, J S ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MAURICE LAMONTAGNE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Disease; Hurricane; Kelp beds; Mass mortality; Pathogen; Sea urchin; Temperature

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; ECHINODERM; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HURRICANE EVENT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; KELP FOREST; LABORATORY METHOD; MASS MORTALITY; MORBIDITY; PATHOGEN; PROTOZOAN; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ATLANTIC COAST [CANADA]; ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; CANADA; NOVA SCOTIA;

ECHINOIDEA; PARAMOEBA INVADENS; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS DROEBACHIENSIS;

EID: 77954116823     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08579     Document Type: Article

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