ReviewTrends in ecology & evolution2011
Frontiers in climate change-disease research.
Review in Trends in ecology & evolution, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 119 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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119 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 362 citations in OpenAlex.
- Meta-analysis finds large variation but no general patterns in the relationship between climate and parasitism in terrestrial animals.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Pooled it
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- Nature Exposure and Its Effects on Immune System Functioning: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Spatially explicit forecasts of tree insect and disease incidence across North American forests under future climate scenarios.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
- Inter-stock congruence of long-term changes in macroparasite communities of a small pelagic fish ¿An effect of climate change?Parasitology research · 2026Article
- Climate sensitivity is widely but unevenly spread across zoonotic diseases.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Reappraisal of the Dilution and Amplification Effect Framework: A Case Study in Lyme Disease.Ecology and evolution · 2025Review
- Thermal mismatch models derived from occurrence data predict pathogen prevalence in frogs.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Temperature and Resources Interact to Affect Transmission via Host Foraging Rate and Susceptibility.Ecology letters · 2025Article
- Early warning signals do not predict a warming-induced experimental epidemic.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- A Mosquito Parasite Is Locally Adapted to Its Host but Not Temperature.The American naturalist · 2024Article
- Infectious disease responses to human climate change adaptations.Global change biology · 2024Review
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- Cattle aggregations at shared resources create potential parasite exposure hotspots for wildlife.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Zoonoses in a changing world.Bioscience · 2023Article
- Temperature and intraspecific variation affect host-parasite interactions.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- The two chytrid pathogens of amphibians in Eurasia-climatic niches and future expansion.BMC ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Infectious Disease Sensitivity to Climate and Other Driver-Pressure Changes: Research Effort and Gaps for Lyme Disease and Cryptosporidiosis.GeoHealth · 2023Review
- Cryptosporidiosis threat under climate change in China: prediction and validation of habitat suitability and outbreak risk for human-derived Cryptosporidium based on ecological niche models.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2023Article
- Host-driven temperature dependence of Deformed wing virus infection in honey bee pupae.Communications biology · 2023Article
59 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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8 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
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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