Marine Disease Ecology

Global research on marine disease ecology has expanded at an accelerating rate, due to increases in disease emergence across many taxa but also a broader realization that the parasites responsible are themselves important members of marine communities.

Courses are now starting to emerge and this first textbook is ideally placed to serve them.

SECTION 1: MARINE INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND THEIR ECOLOGICAL ROLES; 1 Bateman, Feist, Bignell, Bass and Stentiford: Marine pathogen diversity and disease outcomes; 2 Mclaughlin, Morton and Lafferty: Parasites in marine food webs; 3 Morton, Silliman and Lafferty: Disease can shape marine ecosystems; SECTION 2: DRIVERS OF MARINE DISEASE; 4 Little, Rojas and Rohwer: Bacteriophage can drive virulence in marine pathogens; 5 Burge and Hershberger: Climate change can drive marine diseases; 6 Bojko, Lipp, Ford and Behringer: Pollution can drive marine diseases; 7 Lohan, Ruiz and Torchin: Invasions can drive marine disease dynamics; SECTION 3: DISEASE PROBLEMS AND THEIR MANAGEMENT; 8 Harvell and Lamb: Disease outbreaks can threaten marine biodiversity; 9 Raymundo, Burge and Lamb: Disease ecology in marine conservation and management; 10 Behringer, Wood, Krkosek and Bushek: Disease in fisheries and aquaculture; SECTION 4: WORKING WITH INFECTIOUS DISEASES; 11 Frasca, Gast, Bogomolni and Szczepanek: Diagnosing marine diseases; 12 Ben-Horin, Bidegain, de Leo, Groner, Hofmann, McCallum and Powell: Modelling marine diseases; 13 Thurber: Future directions for marine disease research