Environmental refuges from disease in host–parasite interactions under global change
(2023) In Ecology 104(4).- Abstract
The physiological performance of organisms depends on their environmental context, resulting in performance–response curves along environmental gradients. Parasite performance–response curves are generally expected to be broader than those of their hosts due to shorter generation times and hence faster adaptation. However, certain environmental conditions may limit parasite performance more than that of the host, thereby providing an environmental refuge from disease. Thermal disease refuges have been extensively studied in response to climate warming, but other environmental factors may also provide environmental disease refuges which, in turn, respond to global change. Here, we (1) showcase laboratory and natural examples of refuges... (More)
The physiological performance of organisms depends on their environmental context, resulting in performance–response curves along environmental gradients. Parasite performance–response curves are generally expected to be broader than those of their hosts due to shorter generation times and hence faster adaptation. However, certain environmental conditions may limit parasite performance more than that of the host, thereby providing an environmental refuge from disease. Thermal disease refuges have been extensively studied in response to climate warming, but other environmental factors may also provide environmental disease refuges which, in turn, respond to global change. Here, we (1) showcase laboratory and natural examples of refuges from parasites along various environmental gradients, and (2) provide hypotheses on how global environmental change may affect these refuges. We strive to synthesize knowledge on potential environmental disease refuges along different environmental gradients including salinity and nutrients, in both natural and food-production systems. Although scaling up from single host–parasite relationships along one environmental gradient to their interaction outcome in the full complexity of natural environments remains difficult, integrating host and parasite performance–response can serve to formulate testable hypotheses about the variability in parasitism outcomes and the occurrence of environmental disease refuges under current and future environmental conditions.
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- ectotherm, mismatch, nutrients, parasitism, performance–response curves, reaction norms, salinity, temperature, tolerance range
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abstract = {{<p>The physiological performance of organisms depends on their environmental context, resulting in performance–response curves along environmental gradients. Parasite performance–response curves are generally expected to be broader than those of their hosts due to shorter generation times and hence faster adaptation. However, certain environmental conditions may limit parasite performance more than that of the host, thereby providing an environmental refuge from disease. Thermal disease refuges have been extensively studied in response to climate warming, but other environmental factors may also provide environmental disease refuges which, in turn, respond to global change. Here, we (1) showcase laboratory and natural examples of refuges from parasites along various environmental gradients, and (2) provide hypotheses on how global environmental change may affect these refuges. We strive to synthesize knowledge on potential environmental disease refuges along different environmental gradients including salinity and nutrients, in both natural and food-production systems. Although scaling up from single host–parasite relationships along one environmental gradient to their interaction outcome in the full complexity of natural environments remains difficult, integrating host and parasite performance–response can serve to formulate testable hypotheses about the variability in parasitism outcomes and the occurrence of environmental disease refuges under current and future environmental conditions.</p>}},
author = {{Gsell, Alena S. and Biere, Arjen and de Boer, Wietse and de Bruijn, Irene and Eichhorn, Götz and Frenken, Thijs and Geisen, Stefan and van der Jeugd, Henk and Mason-Jones, Kyle and Meisner, Annelein and Thakur, Madhav P. and van Donk, Ellen and Zwart, Mark P. and Van de Waal, Dedmer B.}},
issn = {{0012-9658}},
keywords = {{ectotherm; mismatch; nutrients; parasitism; performance–response curves; reaction norms; salinity; temperature; tolerance range}},
language = {{eng}},
number = {{4}},
publisher = {{Ecological Society of America}},
series = {{Ecology}},
title = {{Environmental refuges from disease in host–parasite interactions under global change}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4001}},
doi = {{10.1002/ecy.4001}},
volume = {{104}},
year = {{2023}},
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