Data from: Warmer is deadlier: A meta-analysis reveals increasing temperatures accentuate disease impacts on fisheries hosts

Rapid warming could drastically alter host-parasite relationships, which
is especially important for fisheries crucial to human nutrition and
economic livelihoods, yet we lack a synthetic understanding of how warming
influences parasite-induced mortality in these systems. We conducted a
meta-analysis using 266 effect sizes from 52 empirical papers on harvested
aquatic species and determined the relationship between parasite-induced
host mortality and temperature and how this relationship was altered by
host, parasite, and study design traits. Overall, higher temperatures
increased parasite-induced host mortality; however, the magnitude of this
relationship varied. Hosts from the order Salmoniformes experienced a
greater increase in parasite-induced mortality with temperature than the
average response to temperature across fish orders. Opportunistic
parasites were associated with a greater increase in infected host
mortality with temperature than the average across parasite strategies,
while bacterial parasites were associated with lower infected host
mortality as temperature increased than the average across parasite types.
Thus, parasites will generally increase host mortality as the environment
warms; however, this effect will vary among systems.