2009

Author(s): Dobson A

Global climate change will have a diversity of impacts on ecological systems. The paper by Lafferty (Lafferty 2009) provides a number of important insights into the ways in which climate change will modify the dynamics of infectious diseases. Here I will focus on three aspects that pick up on his theme that any simple links between climate change and rates of disease transmission will be complicated by the web of ecological interactions within which host-parasite relationships are intimately embedded (Lafferty et al. 2006).

Journal: Ecology

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