Experimental warming drives a seasonal shift in the timing of host-parasite dynamics with consequences for disease risk

Ecology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 445-453

  Paull, Sara H ^a   Johnson, Pieter T J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Climate change; Community interactions; Disease risk; Malformations; Mismatch; Pathology; Phenology; Ribeiroia ondatrae; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; DISEASE INCIDENCE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNAIL;

AMPHIBIA; BASOMMATOPHORA; GASTROPODA; RIBEIROIA ONDATRAE; TREMATODA;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY INTERACTIONS; DISEASE RISK; HEAT; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MALFORMATIONS; MISMATCH; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHENOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIBEIROIA ONDATRAE; SEASON; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNAIL; TREMATODE;

AMPHIBIANS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY INTERACTIONS; DISEASE RISK; MALFORMATIONS; MISMATCH; PATHOLOGY; PHENOLOGY; RIBEIROIA ONDATRAE; SEASONALITY;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HOT TEMPERATURE; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; SNAILS; TREMATODA;

EID: 84895562679     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12244     Document Type: Article

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