1. Climate change and wildlife diseases: When does the host matter the most?
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Harvell, Drew, Altizer, Sonia, Cattadori, Isabella M., Harrington, Laura, and Well, Ernesto
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CLIMATOLOGY , *CLIMATE change , *GLOBAL warming , *COMMUNICABLE diseases , *PARASITES , *GLOBAL temperature changes , *EPIDEMICS , *FOCAL infection - Abstract
The article presents an analysis on the focal Concepts and Synthesis paper of Kevin D. Lafferty on climate change impacts on infectious diseases. Lafferty's paper strongly summarizes the impact of climate change on mosquito--transmitted human infectious disease, as well as the inability of the people to detect climate drivers. The paper also failed to discuss the importance of climate warming and changes in host migratory in the spread of infectious diseases, the impact of climate change on disease dynamics, and the interaction between wildlife hosts and their communities of parasites.
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- 2009
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