Temperature suitability for malaria climbing the Ethiopian Highlands
While the effect of climate change on the prevalence of malaria in the highlands of Eastern Africa has been the topic of protracted debate, temperature is widely accepted as a fundamentally important environmental factor constraining its transmission. Air temperatures below approximately 18 °C and 1...
Main Authors: | Bradfield Lyon, Tufa Dinku, Anita Raman, Madeleine C Thomson |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2017-01-01
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Series: | Environmental Research Letters |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa64e6 |
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