Climate change and the ecology and evolution of Arctic vertebrates

O Gilg, KM Kovacs, J Aars, J Fort… - Annals of the New …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is taking place more rapidly and severely in the Arctic than anywhere on the
globe, exposing Arctic vertebrates to a host of impacts. Changes in the cryosphere dominate …

Climate change: the importance of place

JJ Hess, JN Malilay, AJ Parkinson - American journal of preventive …, 2008 - Elsevier
Climate change–related risks are place-specific and path-dependent. Accordingly, location
is an important determinant of hazardous exposure, and certain places will bear more risk …

Tradition and transition: parasitic zoonoses of people and animals in Alaska, northern Canada, and Greenland

EJ Jenkins, LJ Castrodale, SJC de Rosemond… - Advances in …, 2013 - Elsevier
Zoonotic parasites are important causes of endemic and emerging human disease in
northern North America and Greenland (the North), where prevalence of some parasites is …

Natural history collections-based research: progress, promise, and best practices

BS McLean, KC Bell, JL Dunnum… - Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Specimens and associated data in natural history collections (NHCs) foster substantial
scientific progress. In this paper, we explore recent contributions of NHCs to the study of …

The Arctic as a model for anticipating, preventing, and mitigating climate change impacts on host–parasite interactions

SJ Kutz, EJ Jenkins, AM Veitch, J Ducrocq, L Polley… - Veterinary …, 2009 - Elsevier
Climate change is influencing the structure and function of natural ecosystems around the
world, including host–parasite interactions and disease emergence. Understanding the …

Metabolic approaches to understanding climate change impacts on seasonal host‐macroparasite dynamics

PK Molnár, SJ Kutz, BM Hoar, AP Dobson - Ecology letters, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is expected to alter the dynamics of infectious diseases around the globe.
Predictive models remain elusive due to the complexity of host–parasite systems and …

Natural history collections as emerging resources for innovative education

JA Cook, SV Edwards, EA Lacey, RP Guralnick… - …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
There is an emerging consensus that undergraduate biology education in the United States
is at a crucial juncture, especially as we acknowledge the need to train a new generation of …

Building an integrated infrastructure for exploring biodiversity: field collections and archives of mammals and parasites

KE Galbreath, EP Hoberg, JA Cook… - Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Museum specimens play an increasingly important role in predicting the outcomes and
revealing the consequences of anthropogenically driven disruption of the biosphere. As …

Parasites in ungulates of Arctic North America and Greenland: a view of contemporary diversity, ecology, and impact in a world under change

SJ Kutz, J Ducrocq, GG Verocai, BM Hoar… - Advances in …, 2012 - Elsevier
Parasites play an important role in the structure and function of arctic ecosystems, systems
that are currently experiencing an unprecedented rate of change due to various …

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 …