This document summarizes a study modeling the effects of climate change on disease in Pacific salmon. The study will link several models: 1) a degree-day model of the parasite Ceratomyxa shasta's life cycle, 2) the USGS Basin Characterization Model of the Klamath River, 3) a hydraulic model of the invertebrate host's habitat, and 4) an epidemiological model. The linked models will predict how climate change may alter disease severity and distribution. Outcomes include identifying habitats for protection and a model to predict changes in C. shasta and other diseases. The study aims to inform management of healthy fisheries under climate change.
1. Modeling Disease in Pacific Salmon
Establishing Watershed Models for Predicting
Effects of Climate Change
Jerri Bartholomew Salmon
Department of Microbiology
Graduate students:
Sarah Bjork (2008)
Luciano Chiaramonte (2010) Actinospore Myxospore
Adam Ray (2012)
Polychaete
3. Increasing temperature and altered ecosystem processes will
have multiple effects on host-parasite dynamics
Increased parasite
replication
Increased stress -
causing reduced
disease thresholds Salmon host
Altered longevity Ceratomyxa
of parasite stages
shasta life
cycle Myxospore
Actinospore
Altered
timing of
parasite
release
Changes in
population
Polychaete host dynamics
4. These changes will have profound effects on the outcome of
infections by a variety of pathogens
Outcomes
Changes in
Changes in Changes in
disease severity
seasonal cycles pathogen range
Layered on this is the altered effectiveness of management strategies as the
4 amount of cold, fresh water becomes limited.
5. This study will link models to assess the interaction of
disease and climate change effects on wild salmon
Degree-day model of the Basin Characterization
parasite life cycle Model for the Klamath
River (USGS)
Hydraulic model for the
invertebrate host habitat
(USFWS collaboration)
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Epidemiological model
6. This study will link models to assess the interaction of
disease and climate change effects on wild salmon
Outcome:
Degree-day model of the Predict changes in Basin Characterization
parasite life cycle disease severity and Model for the Klamath
distribution under River (USGS)
different climatic
scenarios
Hydraulic model for the
invertebrate host habitat
(USFWS collaboration)
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Epidemiological model
7. The watersheds selected for this study have different
characteristics and predictions for climate effects differ
– C. shasta is present in both
Klamath River
• Warmer water temperatures
• Altered timing and magnitude of flow
events
• Increase in runoff and sedimentation
Willamette River
• Changes may not be as dramatic or
extreme as predicted for the Klamath
• larger discharge volume and the
cooler profile
• more of its basin is above 2500 m,
buffering system from change
8. Outcomes directed toward management for healthy fisheries
Identification of critical habitats for
protection
– “disease refugia”
A model that can be used to predict
changes in disease severity and
distribution of Ceratomyxa shasta
- other host-pathogen systems
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10. In summary, linking these models will allow us predict how
climate change will alter disease in salmon
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