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 …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of climate change on human infectious diseases: Empirical evidence and human adaptation

X Wu, Y Lu, S Zhou, L Chen, B Xu - Environment international, 2016 - Elsevier
Climate change refers to long-term shifts in weather conditions and patterns of extreme
weather events. It may lead to changes in health threat to human beings, multiplying existing …

What is machine learning? A primer for the epidemiologist

Q Bi, KE Goodman, J Kaminsky… - American journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Machine learning is a branch of computer science that has the potential to transform
epidemiologic sciences. Amid a growing focus on “Big Data,” it offers epidemiologists new …

Potential applications of subseasonal‐to‐seasonal (S2S) predictions

CJ White, H Carlsen, AW Robertson… - Meteorological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
While seasonal outlooks have been operational for many years, until recently the extended‐
range timescale referred to as subseasonal‐to‐seasonal (S2S) has received little attention …

Model averaging in ecology: A review of Bayesian, information‐theoretic, and tactical approaches for predictive inference

CF Dormann, JM Calabrese… - Ecological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In ecology, the true causal structure for a given problem is often not known, and several
plausible models and thus model predictions exist. It has been claimed that using weighted …

Climate change and infectious diseases: from evidence to a predictive framework

S Altizer, RS Ostfeld, PTJ Johnson, S Kutz, CD Harvell - science, 2013 - science.org
Scientists have long predicted large-scale responses of infectious diseases to climate
change, giving rise to a polarizing debate, especially concerning human pathogens for …

Climate change and vector-borne diseases: what are the implications for public health research and policy?

D Campbell-Lendrum, L Manga… - … of the Royal …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Vector-borne diseases continue to contribute significantly to the global burden of disease,
and cause epidemics that disrupt health security and cause wider socioeconomic impacts …

Early warning of climate tip** points

TM Lenton - Nature climate change, 2011 - nature.com
A tip** point occurs when an external forcing causes a qualitative change in a system.
Human-induced climate change could push several large elements of the climate system …

Challenges in combining projections from multiple climate models

R Knutti, R Furrer, C Tebaldi, J Cermak… - Journal of …, 2010 - journals.ametsoc.org
Recent coordinated efforts, in which numerous general circulation climate models have
been run for a common set of experiments, have produced large datasets of projections of …

[BOEK][B] Environmental hazards: assessing risk and reducing disaster

K Smith, CJ Fearnley, D Dixon, DK Bird, I Kelman - 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
The seventh edition of Environmental Hazards provides a much expanded and fully up-to-
date overview of all the extreme environmental events that threaten people and what they …