Are diseases increasing in the ocean?

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 35, Issue , 2004, Pages 31-54

  Lafferty, Kevin D ^a   Porter, James W ^b   Ford, Susan E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bleaching; Disease; Global warming; Marine; Mass mortality

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE SPREAD; INTRODUCED SPECIES; OCEAN;

ANTHOZOA; CHONDRICHTHYES; CRUSTACEA; ECHINOIDEA; HALOPHILA; MAMMALIA; MOLLUSCA; PISCES; POACEAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 8744291346     PISSN: 00664162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.35.021103.105704     Document Type: Review

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