Effects of climate change on Arctic marine mammal health

KA Burek, FMD Gulland, TM O'Hara - Ecological Applications, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The lack of integrated long‐term data on health, diseases, and toxicant effects in Arctic
marine mammals severely limits our ability to predict the effects of climate change on marine …

Terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems and their services

C Parmesan, MD Morecroft, Y Trisurat, R Adrian… - 2023 - ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk
Chapter 2, building on prior assessments, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

Implications of zoonoses from hunting and use of wildlife in North American arctic and boreal biomes: Pandemic potential, monitoring, and mitigation

LO Keatts, M Robards, SH Olson, K Hueffer… - Frontiers in public …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has re-focused attention on mechanisms that lead to zoonotic
disease spillover and spread. Commercial wildlife trade, and associated markets, are …

Predicting survival, reproduction and abundance of polar bears under climate change

PK Molnár, AE Derocher, GW Thiemann… - Biological Conservation, 2010 - Elsevier
Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) populations are predicted to be negatively affected by climate
warming, but the timeframe and manner in which change to polar bear populations will …

Arctic societies, cultures, and peoples in a changing cryosphere

GK Hovelsrud, B Poppel, B Van Oort, JD Reist - Ambio, 2011 - Springer
Abstract Changes in sea ice, snow cover, lake and river ice, and permafrost will affect
economy, infrastructure, health, and indigenous and non-indigenous livelihoods, culture …

Impact of climate change on livestock production

LH Baumgard, RP Rhoads, ML Rhoads… - … stress and amelioration …, 2012 - Springer
Livestock production is the world's dominant land use, covering about 45% of the Earth's
land surface, and much of it in harsh and variable environments that are unsuitable for other …

Permafrost dynamics and the risk of anthrax transmission: a modelling study

E Stella, L Mari, J Gabrieli, C Barbante, E Bertuzzo - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
A recent outbreak of anthrax disease, severely affecting reindeer herds in Siberia, has been
reportedly associated to the presence of infected carcasses or spores released from the …

Northern host–parasite assemblages: history and biogeography on the borderlands of episodic climate and environmental transition

EP Hoberg, KE Galbreath, JA Cook, SJ Kutz… - Advances in …, 2012 - Elsevier
Diversity among assemblages of mammalian hosts and parasites in northern terrestrial
ecosystems was structured by a deep history of biotic and abiotic change that overlies a …

In a warmer Arctic, mosquitoes avoid increased mortality from predators by growing faster

LE Culler, MP Ayres… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Climate change is altering environmental temperature, a factor that influences ectothermic
organisms by controlling rates of physiological processes. Demographic effects of warming …

Old problems on a new playing field: Helminth zoonoses transmitted among dogs, wildlife, and people in a changing northern climate

EJ Jenkins, JM Schurer, KM Gesy - Veterinary parasitology, 2011 - Elsevier
Although surveillance is limited, indigenous residents at latitudes ranging from 53 to 73° N in
Canada appear to have a higher occurrence of infection with some zoonotic parasites than …