Metabolic approaches to understanding climate change impacts on seasonal host-macroparasite dynamics

Ecology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 9-21

  Molnár, Péter K ^a   Kutz, Susan J ^b   Hoar, Bryanne M ^b   Dobson, Andrew P ^a,c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Expected lifetime reproductive output; Fitness; Host parasite systems; Metabolic theory of ecology; Ostertagia gruehneri; R 0; Seasonality; Sharpe Schoolfield model; Van't Hoff Arrhenius relation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; DEER; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FITNESS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; METABOLISM; NEMATODE; NONLINEARITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; METABOLISM; SEASON;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; METABOLISM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEASONS;

OSTERTAGIA; OSTERTAGIA GRUEHNERI;

EID: 84870860515     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12022     Document Type: Article

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