Expected future plague levels in a wildlife host under different scenarios of climate change

Global Change Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 500-507

  Snäll, Tord ^a   Benestad, R E ^b   Stenseth, N C ^c  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Empirical statistical downscaling; Host parasite model; Plague; Prairie dog; Scenarios of climate change

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; PRAIRIE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RODENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANIS FAMILIARIS; CYNOMYS; CYNOMYS LUDOVICIANUS; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS);

EID: 58549086562     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01725.x     Document Type: Article

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