Understanding how temperature shifts could impact infectious disease.
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 important advances in understanding the role of climate and climate change on wildlife and human infectious disease...
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| description | 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 important advances in understanding the role of climate and climate change on wildlife and human infectious disease dynamics over the past several years. This essay examines 3 major areas of advancement, which include improvements to mechanistic disease models, investigations into the importance of climate variability to disease dynamics, and understanding the consequences of thermal mismatches between host and parasites. Applying the new information derived from these advances to climate-disease models and addressing the pressing knowledge gaps that we identify should improve the capacity to predict how climate change will affect disease risk for both wildlife and humans. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bb55a367b1114d8f8ce72dd5596c8ae62022-12-21T18:34:13ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS Biology1544-91731545-78852020-11-011811e300093810.1371/journal.pbio.3000938Understanding how temperature shifts could impact infectious disease.Jason R RohrJeremy M CohenClimate 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 important advances in understanding the role of climate and climate change on wildlife and human infectious disease dynamics over the past several years. This essay examines 3 major areas of advancement, which include improvements to mechanistic disease models, investigations into the importance of climate variability to disease dynamics, and understanding the consequences of thermal mismatches between host and parasites. Applying the new information derived from these advances to climate-disease models and addressing the pressing knowledge gaps that we identify should improve the capacity to predict how climate change will affect disease risk for both wildlife and humans.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000938 |
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| title | Understanding how temperature shifts could impact infectious disease. |
| title_full | Understanding how temperature shifts could impact infectious disease. |
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