| Abstract: | Since the mid-1970s, large-scale episodic events such as disease epidemics, mass mortalities, harmful algal blooms and other population explosions have been occurring in marine environments at an historically unprecedented rate. The variety of organisms involved (host, pathogens and other opportunists) and the absolute number of episodes have also increased during this period. Are these changes coincidental? Between 1972 and 1976, a global climate regime shift took place, and it is manifest most clearly by a change in strength of the North Pacific and North Atlantic pressure systems. Consequences of this regime shift are: (1) prolonged drought conditions in the Sahel region of Africa; (2) increased dust supply to the global atmosphere, by a factor of approximately four; (3) increased easterly trade winds across the Atlantic; (4) increased eolian transport of dust to the Atlantic and Caribbean basins; and (5) increased deposition of iron-rich eolian dust to typically iron-poor marine regions. On the basis of well-documented climate and dust observations and the widely accepted increase in marine outbreak rates, this paper proposes that the increased iron supply has altered the micronutrient factors limiting growth of opportunistic organisms and virulence of pathogenic microbes, particularly in macronutrient-rich coastal systems. |
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| ProdID: | 70023757 |
| Citation Author: | Hayes, M. L.; Bonaventura, J.; Mitchell, T. P.; Prospero, J. M.; Shinn, E. A.; Van Dolah, F.; Barber, R. T. |
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| Citation Larger Work Title: | Hydrobiologia |
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| Citation Search Results Text: | How are climate and marine biological outbreaks functionally linked?; 2001; Conference Paper; Hydrobiologia; Hayes, M. L.; Bonaventura, J.; Mitchell, T. P.; Prospero, J. M.; Shinn, E. A.; Van Dolah, F.; Barber, R. T. |
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| Text: | How are climate and marine biological outbreaks functionally linked?; 2001; Conference Paper; Hydrobiologia; Hayes, M. L.; Bonaventura, J.; Mitchell, T. P.; Prospero, J. M.; Shinn, E. A.; Van Dolah, F.; Barber, R. T. |
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| URL (DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER): | http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1013121503937 |
| Date Other: | Mon, 1 Jan 2001 00:00 -0600 |
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