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Estuaries May Face Increased Parasitism as Sea Levels Rise

Author(s) -

Wendel JoAnna

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

eos, transactions american geophysical union

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316

H-Index - 86

eISSN - 2324-9250

pISSN - 0096-3941

DOI - 10.1002/2014eo500003

Subject(s) - parasitism , estuary , invertebrate , geography , population , climate change , oceanography , sea level rise , ecology , holocene , fishery , biology , demography , geology , host (biology) , sociology

Invertebrates in estuaries could be at a greater risk of parasitism as climate change causes sea levels to rise. A new paper published 8 December in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (doi:10.1073/pnas.1416747111) describes how rapid sea level rise in the Holocene affected the population of parasitic flatworms called trematodes.

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