Ochre star mortality during the 2014 wasting disease epizootic: Role of population size structure and temperature

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1689, 2016, Pages

  Eisenlord, Morgan E ^a   Groner, Maya L ^b   Yoshioka, Reyn M ^a   Elliott, Joel ^c   Maynard, Jeffrey ^a,d   Fradkin, Steven ^e   Turner, Margaret ^f   Pyne, Katie ^c   Rivlin, Natalie ^a   Van Hooidonk, Ruben ^g,h   Harvell, C Drew ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND   (United States)

^d Centre de Biologie et d Ecologie Tropicale et Méditerranéenne   (France)

^e Olympic National Park   (United States)

^f NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Epizootic; Host demography; Mass mortality; Pisaster ochraceus; Sea star wasting disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECHINODERM; JUVENILE; LABORATORY METHOD; MORTALITY; POPULATION SIZE; SIZE STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ALASKA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; PUGET SOUND; SAN JUAN ISLANDS; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

ASTEROIDEA; DENSOVIRUS; PISASTER OCHRACEUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PATHOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; STARFISH; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTOR;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; POPULATION DENSITY; STARFISH; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84958064071     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0212     Document Type: Article

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