Thermal biology of mosquito‐borne disease

EA Mordecai, JM Caldwell, MK Grossman… - Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Mosquito‐borne diseases cause a major burden of disease worldwide. The vital rates of
these ectothermic vectors and parasites respond strongly and nonlinearly to temperature …

Climate change and infectious diseases: from evidence to a predictive framework

S Altizer, RS Ostfeld, PTJ Johnson, S Kutz, CD Harvell - science, 2013 - science.org
Scientists have long predicted large-scale responses of infectious diseases to climate
change, giving rise to a polarizing debate, especially concerning human pathogens for …

[PDF][PDF] Climate change 2022: Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability

C Parmesan, MD Morecroft, Y Trisurat - 2022 - hal.science
Chapter 2, building on prior assessments1, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

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 …

Transmission of West Nile and five other temperate mosquito-borne viruses peaks at temperatures between 23 C and 26 C

MS Shocket, AB Verwillow, MG Numazu, H Slamani… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
The temperature-dependence of many important mosquito-borne diseases has never been
quantified. These relationships are critical for understanding current distributions and …

Autumn, the neglected season in climate change research

AS Gallinat, RB Primack, DL Wagner - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2015 - cell.com
Autumn remains a relatively neglected season in climate change research in temperate and
arctic ecosystems. This neglect occurs despite the importance of autumn events, including …

rTPC and nls.multstart: A new pipeline to fit thermal performance curves in r

D Padfield, H O'Sullivan, S Pawar - Methods in Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Quantifying thermal performance curves (TPCs) for biological rates has many applications to
important problems such as predicting responses of biological systems—from individuals to …

The megabiota are disproportionately important for biosphere functioning

BJ Enquist, AJ Abraham, MBJ Harfoot, Y Malhi… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
A prominent signal of the Anthropocene is the extinction and population reduction of the
megabiota—the largest animals and plants on the planet. However, we lack a predictive …

Understanding how temperature shifts could impact infectious disease

JR Rohr, JM Cohen - PLoS biology, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Climate change is expected to have complex effects on infectious diseases, causing some to
increase, others to decrease, and many to shift their distributions. There have been several …

Crossing the interspecies barrier: opening the door to zoonotic pathogens

C Gortazar, LA Reperant, T Kuiken… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The number of pathogens known to infect humans is ever increasing. Whether such
increase reflects improved surveillance and detection or actual emergence of novel …