Parasite vulnerability to climate change: an evidence-based functional trait approach

Despite the number of virulent pathogens that are projected to benefit from global change and to spread in the next century, we suggest that a combination of coextinction risk and climate sensitivity could make parasites at least as extinction prone as any other trophic group. However, the existing...

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Main Authors: Carrie A. Cizauskas, Colin J. Carlson, Kevin R. Burgio, Chris F. Clements, Eric R. Dougherty, Nyeema C. Harris, Anna J. Phillips
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2017-01-01
Series:Royal Society Open Science
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Online Access:https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.160535