ReviewRoyal Society open science2017
Parasite vulnerability to climate change: an evidence-based functional trait approach.
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- Birds in arid regions have depauperate louse communities: Climate change implications?Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Climatic variations and Fasciola: a review of impacts across the parasite life cycle.Parasitology research · 2024Review
- Exploring the preservation of a parasitic trace in decapod crustaceans using finite elements analysis.PloS one · 2024Article
- Ecological factors shaping the ectoparasite community assembly of the Azara's Grass Mouse, Akodon azarae (Rodentia: Cricetidae).Parasitology research · 2023Article
- Host species differences in the thermal mismatch of host-parasitoid interactions.The Journal of experimental biology · 2023Article
- A reconstruction of parasite burden reveals one century of climate-associated parasite decline.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- The pervasive impact of global climate change on plant-nematode interaction continuum.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Review
- The Neglected Angio-Neurotrophic ParasitePathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
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Abstract
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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