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ArticleEcology and evolution2026

We Are Dying to Eat You: Cannibalism and Disease Transmission Under Global Climate Change.

Kale Rougeau, Bret D Elderd

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Article in Ecology and evolution, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Kale RougeauDepartment of Biological Sciences Louisiana State University Baton Rouge Louisiana USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5188-7370
Bret D ElderdDepartment of Biological Sciences Louisiana State University Baton Rouge Louisiana USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5853-1136

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In terrestrial ecosystems, climate change may alter host-pathogen dynamics along with interactions between hosts due to rising global temperatures and carbon dioxide levels. As carbon dioxide levels increase, plants may decrease their nitrogen-carbon ratio, which may decrease plant quality for herbivores and alter species interactions. Here, we examined disease transmission, a host-pathogen interaction, and cannibalism, an interaction between hosts, using the fall armyworm (

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baculovirusclimate changedisease ecologyfall armywormresource quality

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PMID42812479
PMCPMC13619740

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