Temperature is a key driver of a wildlife epidemic and future warming will increase impacts
| Autor: | William T. M. Leung, Andrew A. Cunningham, Christopher J. Owen, Chris Sergeant, Trenton W. J. Garner, Francois Balloux, Stephen J. Price, Richard A. Nichols |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0106 biological sciences
0303 health sciences Host (biology) Ecology Wildlife Biodiversity Severe disease Context (language use) Disease Biology Future climate 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences 03 medical and health sciences Environmental temperature 13. Climate action 030304 developmental biology |
| DOI: | 10.1101/272369 |
| Popis: | Increasing environmental temperatures are predicted to have increasingly severe and deleterious effects on biodiversity. For the most part, the impacts of a warming environment are presumed to be direct, however some predict increasingly severe disease epidemics, primarily from vector-borne pathogens, that will have the capacity to deplete host populations. Data to support this hypothesis are lacking. Here we describe increasing severity of ranavirosis driven by increasing temperature affecting a widely distributed amphibian host. Both in vitro and in vivo experiments showed that increasing environmental temperature leads to increased propagation of ranavirus and, in the latter, increased incidence of host infection and mortality. Also, temperature was shown to be a key determinant of disease dynamics in wild amphibians, raising the odds and severity of disease incidents. The direction of this effect was highly consistent in the context of other interacting variables such as shading around ponds. Projections based on future climate indicate that changes in seasonal weather in the UK will result in the increased incidence of severe cases of ranavirosis in amphibian populations that could affect recruitment. These complementary lines of evidence present a clear case of direct environmental modulation of a host-pathogen interaction and provide information for proposing mitigation actions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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