Herbivory drives the spread of salt marsh die-off. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Salt marsh die-off is a Western Atlantic conservation problem that has recently spread into Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, USA. It has been hypothesized to be driven by: 1) eutrophication decreasing plant investment into belowground biomass causing ...
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Mass Die-Off of Saiga Antelopes, Kazakhstan, 2015 [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2019 In 2015, a mass die-off of ≈200,000 saiga antelopes in central Kazakhstan was caused by hemorrhagic septicemia attributable to the bacterium Pasteurella multocida serotype B.
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The 2020 elephant die-off in Botswana. [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 The cause of deaths of 350 elephants in 2020 in a relatively small unprotected area of northern Botswana is unknown, and may never be known. Media speculations about it ignore ecological realities. Worse, they make conjectures that can be detrimental to wildlife and sometimes discredit conservation incentives.
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Mass Die‐Off Events in Swarming Hyperiid Amphipods: Potential Drivers [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionBeach mass stranding events of marine organisms, widely documented worldwide, are triggered by a range of biotic and abiotic environmental factors, often unexplained. Such occurrences among pelagic crustaceans are less frequent, yet not uncommon. Here we
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Multivariate Analysis of Water Quality and Benthic Macrophyte Communities in Florida Bay, USA Reveals Hurricane Effects and Susceptibility to Seagrass Die-Off [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018 Seagrass communities, dominated by Thalassia testudinum, form the principal benthic ecosystem within Florida Bay, Florida USA. The bay has had several large-scale seagrass die-offs in recent decades associated with drought and hypersaline conditions.
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Viruses of Freshwater Mussels during Mass Mortality Events in Oregon and Washington, USA
Viruses, 2023 Freshwater mussels (Unionida) are globally imperiled, in part due to largely unexplained mass mortality events (MMEs). While recent studies have begun to investigate the possibility that mussel MMEs in the Eastern USA may be caused by infectious diseases,
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Freshwater Mussels Show Elevated Viral Richness and Intensity during a Mortality Event
Viruses, 2022 Freshwater mussels (Unionida) are among the world’s most imperiled taxa, but the relationship between freshwater mussel mortality events and infectious disease is largely unstudied.
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Massive mortality of the giant freshwater mussel Anodontites trapesialis (Lamarck, 1819) (Bivalvia: Mycetopodidae) during a severe drought in a Neotropical reservoir [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2020 In 2012, a severe drought struck the southeastern of Brazil compromising the Paraná River Basin reservoirs. Here, we described how this climatic event promoted a massive mortality of the giant freshwater mussel Anodontites trapesialis in Furnas reservoir
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Mass Mortality of Invasive Snails: Impact of Nutrient Release on Littoral Water Quality
Diversity, 2021 Mollusks are the macroinvertebrates most commonly introduced into fresh water. In invaded reservoirs, alien mollusks form a large biomass due to their large size.
Liubov Yanygina
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 Whole and fresh-cut produce are minimally processed and susceptible to microbial contamination. This study evaluated the survival or growth of L. monocytogenes on peeled rinds, and fresh-cut produce at different storage temperatures. Fresh-cut fruits and
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