Saigas on the brink: Multidisciplinary analysis of the factors influencing mass mortality events
| Autor: | Navinder J. Singh, E. J. Milner-Gulland, Sergei Khomenko, Richard Kock, Mukhit Orynbayev, Henny M. Martineau, Zamira Omarova, Sara Wolfs, Eric R. Morgan, Florent Hawotte, Julien Radoux, Steffen Zuther, Rashida A. Rystaeva, Sarah Robinson, Aslan Kerimbayev, Wendy Beauvais |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0106 biological sciences
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Environmental change Exacerbation Population Interdisciplinary Research Environmental Studies Vulnerability Hemorrhagic septicemia Diseases and Disorders Biology Extinction Biological 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Environmental health parasitic diseases Animals education Research Articles 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Probability education.field_of_study Principal Component Analysis Multidisciplinary Multidisciplinary analysis Stressor food and beverages SciAdv r-articles humanities Kazakhstan Mass mortality Antelopes Pasteurella Research Article |
| Zdroj: | Science Advances Kock, R, Orenbayev, M, Robinson, S, Zuther, S, Singh, N, Beauvais, W, Morgan, E, Kerimbayev, A, Khomenko, S, Martineau, H, Rystaeva, R, Omarova, Z, Wolfs, S, Hawotte, F, Radoux, J & Milner-Gulland, E 2018, ' Saigas on the brink: Multidisciplinary analysis of the factors influencing mass mortality events ', Science Advances, vol. 4, no. 1, eaao2314, pp. 1-11 . https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aao2314 |
| ISSN: | 2375-2548 |
| DOI: | 10.1126/sciadv.aao2314 |
| Popis: | An opportunistic bacterial infection preceded by weather of unusually high humidity and temperature caused mass death of saigas. In 2015, more than 200,000 saiga antelopes died in 3 weeks in central Kazakhstan. The proximate cause of death is confirmed as hemorrhagic septicemia caused by the bacterium Pasteurella multocida type B, based on multiple strands of evidence. Statistical modeling suggests that there was unusually high relative humidity and temperature in the days leading up to the mortality event; temperature and humidity anomalies were also observed in two previous similar events in the same region. The modeled influence of environmental covariates is consistent with known drivers of hemorrhagic septicemia. Given the saiga population’s vulnerability to mass mortality and the likely exacerbation of climate-related and environmental stressors in the future, management of risks to population viability such as poaching and viral livestock disease is urgently needed, as well as robust ongoing veterinary surveillance. A multidisciplinary approach is needed to research mass mortality events under rapid environmental change. |
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