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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| author | Carrie A. Cizauskas Colin J. Carlson Kevin R. Burgio Chris F. Clements Eric R. Dougherty Nyeema C. Harris Anna J. Phillips |
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| description | 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 interdisciplinary toolbox for identifying species threatened by climate change is inadequate or inappropriate when considering parasites as conservation targets. A functional trait approach can be used to connect parasites' ecological role to their risk of disappearance, but this is complicated by the taxonomic and functional diversity of many parasite clades. Here, we propose biological traits that may render parasite species particularly vulnerable to extinction (including high host specificity, complex life cycles and narrow climatic tolerance), and identify critical gaps in our knowledge of parasite biology and ecology. By doing so, we provide criteria to identify vulnerable parasite species and triage parasite conservation efforts. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cd51e66e5074412eacf34432473b79522022-12-21T18:00:33ZengThe Royal SocietyRoyal Society Open Science2054-57032017-01-014110.1098/rsos.160535160535Parasite vulnerability to climate change: an evidence-based functional trait approachCarrie A. CizauskasColin J. CarlsonKevin R. BurgioChris F. ClementsEric R. DoughertyNyeema C. HarrisAnna J. PhillipsDespite 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 interdisciplinary toolbox for identifying species threatened by climate change is inadequate or inappropriate when considering parasites as conservation targets. A functional trait approach can be used to connect parasites' ecological role to their risk of disappearance, but this is complicated by the taxonomic and functional diversity of many parasite clades. Here, we propose biological traits that may render parasite species particularly vulnerable to extinction (including high host specificity, complex life cycles and narrow climatic tolerance), and identify critical gaps in our knowledge of parasite biology and ecology. By doing so, we provide criteria to identify vulnerable parasite species and triage parasite conservation efforts.https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.160535parasite extinctionhost–parasite interactionsclimate changeconservationbiodiversitydisease ecology |
| spellingShingle | Carrie A. Cizauskas Colin J. Carlson Kevin R. Burgio Chris F. Clements Eric R. Dougherty Nyeema C. Harris Anna J. Phillips Parasite vulnerability to climate change: an evidence-based functional trait approach Royal Society Open Science parasite extinction host–parasite interactions climate change conservation biodiversity disease ecology |
| title | Parasite vulnerability to climate change: an evidence-based functional trait approach |
| title_full | Parasite vulnerability to climate change: an evidence-based functional trait approach |
| title_fullStr | Parasite vulnerability to climate change: an evidence-based functional trait approach |
| title_full_unstemmed | Parasite vulnerability to climate change: an evidence-based functional trait approach |
| title_short | Parasite vulnerability to climate change: an evidence-based functional trait approach |
| title_sort | parasite vulnerability to climate change an evidence based functional trait approach |
| topic | parasite extinction host–parasite interactions climate change conservation biodiversity disease ecology |
| url | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.160535 |
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