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TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
Volume 26, Issue 6, Pages 270-277Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2011.03.002
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- Ecological Society of America
- US Environmental Protection Agency [R833835, FP-91699601]
- National Science Foundation (NSF) [DEB-0841758]
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation
- NSF EID [EF-0914384, EF-0914866]
- National Institutes of Health [1RO1AI069217-01]
- Division Of Earth Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [0841758] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Environmental Biology
- Direct For Biological Sciences [0914866] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The notion that climate change will generally increase human and wildlife diseases has garnered considerable public attention, but remains controversial and seems inconsistent with the expectation that climate change will also cause parasite extinctions. In this review, we highlight the frontiers in climate change-infectious disease research by reviewing knowledge gaps that make this controversy difficult to resolve. We suggest that forecasts of climate-change impacts on disease can be improved by more interdisciplinary collaborations, better linking of data and models, addressing confounding variables and context dependencies, and applying metabolic theory to host-parasite systems with consideration of community-level interactions and functional traits. Finally, although we emphasize host-parasite interactions, we also highlight the applicability of these points to climate-change effects on species interactions in general.
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