Thermal biology of mosquito‐borne disease

EA Mordecai, JM Caldwell, MK Grossman… - Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Mosquito‐borne diseases cause a major burden of disease worldwide. The vital rates of
these ectothermic vectors and parasites respond strongly and nonlinearly to temperature …

Marine parasites and disease in the era of global climate change

JE Byers - Annual Review of Marine Science, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Climate change affects ecological processes and interactions, including parasitism.
Because parasites are natural components of ecological systems, as well as agents of …

Understanding how temperature shifts could impact infectious disease

JR Rohr, JM Cohen - PLoS biology, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Climate change is expected to have complex effects on infectious diseases, causing some to
increase, others to decrease, and many to shift their distributions. There have been several …

The role of vector trait variation in vector-borne disease dynamics

LJ Cator, LR Johnson, EA Mordecai… - Frontiers in ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Many important endemic and emerging diseases are transmitted by vectors that are biting
arthropods. The functional traits of vectors can affect pathogen transmission rates directly …

Metabolic theory and the temperature-size rule explain the temperature dependence of population carrying capacity

JR Bernhardt, JM Sunday… - The American …, 2018 - journals.uchicago.edu
The temperature dependence of highly conserved subcellular metabolic systems affects
ecological patterns and processes across scales, from organisms to ecosystems. Population …

Infection burdens and virulence under heat stress: ecological and evolutionary considerations

TE Hector, ALM Gehman… - … Transactions of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
As a result of global change, hosts and parasites (including pathogens) are experiencing
shifts in their thermal environment. Despite the importance of heat stress tolerance for host …

Impact of climate change on parasite infection of an important pollinator depends on host genotypes

O Manlik, S Mundra, R Schmid‐Hempel… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is predicted to affect host–parasite interactions, and for some hosts, parasite
infection is expected to increase with rising temperatures. Global population declines of …

Monogenean Sparicotyle chrysophrii: The major pathogen of the Mediterranean gilthead seabream aquaculture

I Mladineo, D Volpatti, P Beraldo, G Rigos… - Reviews in …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Following the intensification of the Mediterranean aquaculture over the years, Sparicotyle
(syn. Microcotyle) chrysophrii (van Beneden and Hesse, 1863; Microcotylidae, Monogenea) …

Effects of climate change on parasites and disease in estuarine and nearshore environments

JE Byers - PLoS Biology, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Information on parasites and disease in marine ecosystems lags behind terrestrial systems,
increasing the challenge of predicting responses of marine host–parasite systems to climate …

Constraining nonlinear time series modeling with the metabolic theory of ecology

SB Munch, TL Rogers, CC Symons, D Anderson… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
Forecasting the response of ecological systems to environmental change is a critical
challenge for sustainable management. The metabolic theory of ecology (MTE) posits …