Variable intertidal temperature explains why disease endangers black abalone

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 161-168

  Ben Horin, Tal ^a   Lenihan, Hunter S ^a   Lafferty, Kevin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fade out; Haliotis cracherodii; Infectious disease; Local extinction; Microclimate; Temperature variation; Time lag

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EXTINCTION; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MASS MORTALITY; POPULATION DECLINE; SNAIL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WARM WATER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLLUSC; PHYSIOLOGY; RICKETTSIACEAE; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MOLLUSCA; RICKETTSIACEAE; TEMPERATURE;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

HALIOTIDAE; HALIOTIS CRACHERODII; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 84876103000     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-2257.1     Document Type: Article

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