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Sea Sickness
Marine epidemiology comes of age
Stress caused by human activities and climate change appears to play a significant role in diseases that afflict ocean wildlife.
References:
Epstein, P., B. Sherman, et al. 1998. Marine ecosystems: Emerging diseases as indicators of change. Year of the Ocean Special Report (December).
Further Readings:
Burkholder, J.M. 1998. Implications of harmful microalgae and hetrotrophic dinoflagellates in management of sustainable marine fisheries. Ecological Applications 8(February):537.
Burkholder, J.M., K.M. Mason, and H.B. Glasgow, Jr. 1992. Water-column nitrate enrichment promotes decline of eelgrass Zostera marina: Evidence from seasonal mesocosm experiments. Marine Ecology Progress Series 81(April 21):163.
Landsberg, J.H. 1996. Neoplasia and biotoxins in bivalves: Is there a connection? Journal of Shellfish Research 15:203.
______. 1995. Tropical reef-fish disease outbreaks and mass mortalities in Florida, USA: What is the role of dietary biological toxins? Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 22(June 15):83.
Milius, S. 1998. Bacteria cause plague in coral reef. Science News 153(April 11):229.
Mlot, C. 1997. Feds tackle toxic cell. Science News 152(Oct. 4):213.
______. 1997. The rise in toxic tides. Science News 152(Sept. 27):202.
______. 1997. Unraveling a fish killer's toxic ways. Science News 152(Sept. 6):149.
Smith, G.W. 1996. Caribbean sea-fan mortalities. Nature 383(Oct. 10):487.
Steidinger, K.A., J.H. Landsberg, et al. 1998. First report of Gymnodinium pulchellum (Dinophyceae) in North America and associated fish kills in the Indian River, Florida. Journal of Phycology 34:431.
Steidinger, K.A., et al. 1996. The use of scanning electron microscopy in identifying small "gymnodinioid" dinoflagellates. NOVA HEDWIGIA, Beiheft 112(January):415.
Weisburd, S. 1987. Warming up to an El Niño. Science News 131(Jan. 24):55.
Sources:
JoAnn M. Burkholder
North Carolina State University
Department of Botany
Box 7612
Raleigh, NC 27696
James M. Cervino
Global Coral Reef Alliance
124-19 9th Avenue
College Point
New York, NY 11356
Paul R. Epstein
Harvard Medical School
Center for Health and the Global Environment
260 Longwood Avenue
Room 262-A
Boston, MA 02115
Jan H. Landsberg
Florida Marine Research Institute
Florida Department of Environmental Protection
100 8th Avenue, S.E.
St. Petersburg, GL 33701-5095
Barbara Schroeder
National Marine Fisheries Service
1315 East-West Highway, Room 13657
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Benjamin H. Sherman
University of New Hampshire
HEED Global Change Program
211 Newmith Hall
Durham, NH 03284
Web site: http://heed.harvard.edu
Garriet W. Smith
University of South Carolina
Biology Department
Aiken, SC 29801
From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 5, January 30, 1999, p. 72. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.
