Human health and ocean pollution

PJ Landrigan, JJ Stegeman, LE Fleming… - Annals of global …, 2020 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Pollution–unwanted waste released to air, water, and land by human activity–is
the largest environmental cause of disease in the world today. It is responsible for an …

[HTML][HTML] Microorganisms and climate change: a not so invisible effect

A Ibáñez, S Garrido-Chamorro, C Barreiro - Microbiology Research, 2023 - mdpi.com
The effect of climate change on flora and fauna has been widely discussed for years.
However, its consequences on microorganisms are generally poorly considered. The main …

Oceans and coastal ecosystems and their services

S Cooley, D Schoeman, L Bopp, P Boyd, S Donner… - 2023 - digital.csic.es
Ocean and coastal ecosystems support life on Earth and many aspects of human well-being.
Covering two-thirds of the planet, the ocean hosts vast biodiversity and modulates the global …

Climate change and marine turtles: recent advances and future directions

AR Patrício, LA Hawkes, JR Monsinjon… - Endangered Species …, 2021 - int-res.com
Climate change is a threat to marine turtles that is expected to affect all of their life stages. To
guide future research, we conducted a review of the most recent literature on this topic …

Marine parasites and disease in the era of global climate change

JE Byers - Annual Review of Marine Science, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Climate change affects ecological processes and interactions, including parasitism.
Because parasites are natural components of ecological systems, as well as agents of …

Infection dynamics of Shewanella spp. in Nile tilapia under varied water temperatures: a hematological, biochemical, antioxidant-immune analysis, and …

RM Reda, A El-Murr, NA Abdel-Basset… - Fish & Shellfish …, 2024 - Elsevier
In aquaculture, fluctuating water temperatures can act as a potent stressor, influencing the
virulence and transmission dynamics of pathogenic bacteria, potentially triggering outbreaks …

Effects of climate change on parasites and disease in estuarine and nearshore environments

JE Byers - PLoS Biology, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Information on parasites and disease in marine ecosystems lags behind terrestrial systems,
increasing the challenge of predicting responses of marine host–parasite systems to climate …

Molecular mechanisms underlying the vulnerability of Pacific abalone (Haliotis discus hannai) to Vibrio harveyi infection at higher water temperature

Y Lee, HJ Roh, A Kim, J Park, JY Lee, YJ Kim… - Fish & Shellfish …, 2023 - Elsevier
Climate change is one of the most important threats to farmed abalone worldwide. Although
abalone is more susceptible to vibriosis at higher water temperatures, the molecular mode of …

Effects of seagrass wasting disease on eelgrass growth and belowground sugar in natural meadows

OJ Graham, LR Aoki, T Stephens, J Stokes… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Seagrass meadows provide valuable ecosystem benefits but are at risk from disease.
Eelgrass (Zostera marina) is a temperate species threatened by seagrass wasting disease …

Heat sensitivity of first host and cercariae may restrict parasite transmission in a warming sea

DM Díaz-Morales, C Bommarito, J Vajedsamiei… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
To predict global warming impacts on parasitism, we should describe the thermal tolerance
of all players in host–parasite systems. Complex life-cycle parasites such as trematodes are …