BEHRINGER, D. / SILLIMAN, B. / LAFFERTY, K.
SECTION 1: MARINE INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND THEIR ECOLOGICAL ROLES
1: Marine pathogen diversity and disease outcomes, Bateman, Feist, Bignell, Bass and Stentiford
2: Parasites in marine food webs, Mclaughlin, Morton and Lafferty
3: Disease can shape marine ecosystems, Morton, Silliman and Lafferty
SECTION 2: DRIVERS OF MARINE DISEASE
4: Bacteriophage can drive virulence in marine pathogens, Little, Rojas and Rohwer
5: Climate change can drive marine diseases, Burge and Hershberger
6: Pollution can drive marine diseases, Bojko, Lipp, Ford and Behringer
7: Invasions can drive marine disease dynamics, Lohan, Ruiz and Torchin
SECTION 3: DISEASE PROBLEMS AND THEIR MANAGEMENT
8: Disease outbreaks can threaten marine biodiversity, Harvell and Lamb
9: Disease ecology in marine conservation and management, Raymundo, Burge and Lamb
10: Disease in fisheries and aquaculture, Behringer, Wood, Krkosek and Bushek
SECTION 4: WORKING WITH INFECTIOUS DISEASES
11: Diagnosing marine diseases, Frasca, Gast, Bogomolni and Szczepanek
12: Modelling marine diseases, Ben-Horin, Bidegain, de Leo, Groner, Hofmann, McCallum and Powell
13: Future directions for marine disease research, Thurber
Whether through loss of habitat or cascading community effects, diseases can shape the very nature of the marine environment. Despite their significant impacts, studies of marine diseases have tended to lag behind their terrestrial equivalents, particularly with regards to their ecological effects. However, in recent decades global research focused on marine disease ecology has expanded at an accelerating rate. This is due in part to increases in disease emergence across many taxa, but can also be attributed to a broader realization that the parasites responsible for disease are themselves important members of marine communities. Understanding their ecological relationships with the environment and their hosts is critical to understanding, conserving, and managing natural and exploited populations, communities, and ecosystems. Courses on marine disease ecology are now starting to emerge and this first textbook in the field will be ideally placed to serve them.
