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Warmer Is Deadlier: A Meta-Analysis Reveals Increasing Temperatures Accentuate Disease Effects on Fisheries Hosts.

Megan M Tomamichel, Kaitlyn I Lowe, Kaylee M H Arnold, Marc E Frischer, Brian J Irwin, Craig W Osenberg, Richard J Hall, James E Byers

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Synthesis in Ecology letters, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Megan M TomamichelOdum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7903-6633
Kaitlyn I LoweFranklin College of Arts and Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.
Kaylee M H ArnoldOdum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.
Marc E FrischerSkidaway Institute of Oceanography, University of Georgia, Savannah, Georgia, USA.
Brian J IrwinU.S. Geological Survey, Georgia Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, D. B. Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.
Craig W OsenbergOdum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1918-7904
Richard J HallOdum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.
James E ByersOdum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9240-0287

Funding

Coastal Resources Division, Georgia Department Of Natural Resources NA16NOS4190165Directorate for Biological Sciences DEB-1655426Directorate for Biological Sciences DGE-1545433Georgia Sea Grant, University of Georgia NA180AR417008
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rapid warming could drastically alter host-parasite relationships, which is especially important for fisheries crucial to human nutrition and economic livelihoods, yet we lack a synthetic understanding of how warming influences parasite-induced mortality in these systems. We conducted a meta-analysis using 266 effect sizes from 52 empirical papers on harvested aquatic species and determined the relationship between parasite-induced host mortality and temperature and how this relationship was altered by host, parasite, and study design traits. Overall, higher temperatures increased parasite-induced host mortality; however, the magnitude of this relationship varied. Hosts from the order Salmoniformes experienced a greater increase in parasite-induced mortality with temperature than the average response to temperature across fish orders. Opportunistic parasites were associated with a greater increase in infected host mortality with temperature than the average across parasite strategies, while bacterial parasites were associated with lower infected host mortality as temperature increased than the average across parasite types. Thus, parasites will generally increase host mortality as the environment warms; however, this effect will vary among systems.

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Fish DiseasesFisheriesFishesHost-Parasite InteractionsTemperatureAnimalsclimate changecrustaceanfishfisherieshost–parasite interactionsmortalityparasitepathogentemperaturethermal performance

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PMID40673612
PMCPMC12269349

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