Land use impacts on coral reef health: A ridge-to-reef perspective

RR Carlson, SA Foo, GP Asner - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Over 60% of the world's reefs experience damage from local activities such as overfishing,
coastal development, and watershed pollution. Land-based sources of pollution are a critical …

Disease emergence from global climate and land use change

JA Patz, SH Olson, CK Uejio, HK Gibbs - Medical Clinics of North America, 2008 - Elsevier
Climate change and land use change can affect multiple infectious diseases of humans,
acting either independently or synergistically. Expanded efforts in empiric and future …

Quantification of pathogens and markers of fecal contamination during storm events along popular surfing beaches in San Diego, California

JA Steele, AD Blackwood, JF Griffith, RT Noble… - Water research, 2018 - Elsevier
Along southern California beaches, the concentrations of fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) used
to quantify the potential presence of fecal contamination in coastal recreational waters have …

Assessment of water quality and identification of pollution risk locations in Tiaoxi River (Taihu Watershed), China

KK Vadde, J Wang, L Cao, T Yuan, AJ McCarthy… - Water, 2018 - mdpi.com
Taihu Lake is the third largest freshwater lake in China and serves as a drinking water
source for~ 30 million residents. Tiaoxi River is one of the main rivers connected to this lake …

Climate change and waterborne disease risk in the Great Lakes region of the US

JA Patz, SJ Vavrus, CK Uejio, SL McLellan - American journal of preventive …, 2008 - Elsevier
Extremes of the hydrologic cycle will accompany global warming, causing precipitation
intensity to increase, particularly in middle and high latitudes. During the twentieth century …

Impacts of a changing earth on microbial dynamics and human health risks in the continuum between beach water and sand

CJ Weiskerger, J Brandão, W Ahmed, A Aslan, L Avolio… - Water research, 2019 - Elsevier
Although infectious disease risk from recreational exposure to waterborne pathogens has
been an active area of research for decades, beach sand is a relatively unexplored habitat …

A comparison of extended spectrum β-lactamase producing Escherichia coli from clinical, recreational water and wastewater samples associated in time and location

SB Jørgensen, AV Søraas, LS Arnesen, TM Leegaard… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Extended spectrum β-lactamase producing Escherichia coli (ESBL-EC) are excreted via
effluents and sewage into the environment where they can re-contaminate humans and …

Monitoring and predicting the fecal indicator bacteria concentrations from agricultural, mixed land use and urban stormwater runoff

MA Paule-Mercado, JS Ventura, SA Memon… - Science of the Total …, 2016 - Elsevier
While the urban runoff are increasingly being studied as a source of fecal indicator bacteria
(FIB), less is known about the occurrence of FIB in watershed with mixed land use and …

Acute illness among surfers after exposure to seawater in dry-and wet-weather conditions

BF Arnold, KC Schiff, A Ercumen… - American Journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Rainstorms increase levels of fecal indicator bacteria in urban coastal waters, but it is
unknown whether exposure to seawater after rainstorms increases rates of acute illness. Our …

Quantitative microbial risk assessment combined with hydrodynamic modelling to estimate the public health risk associated with bathing after rainfall events

FE Eregno, I Tryland, T Tjomsland, M Myrmel… - Science of the Total …, 2016 - Elsevier
This study investigated the public health risk from exposure to infectious microorganisms at
Sandvika recreational beaches, Norway and dose–response relationships by combining …