A continental risk assessment of West Nile virus under climate change

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2417-2425

  Harrigan, Ryan J ^a   Thomassen, Henri A ^b   Buermann, Wolfgang ^c   Smith, Thomas B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Disease ecology; Ecological forecasting; Ensemble distribution modeling; Flavivirus; Infectious diseases; Maxent; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RISK ASSESSMENT; VIRUS;

NORTH AMERICA;

FLAVIVIRUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

ANIMAL; BIRD DISEASES; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE CARRIER; HUMAN; MOSQUITO; NORTH AMERICA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SONGBIRD; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; CLIMATE CHANGE; CULICIDAE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORTH AMERICA; PASSERIFORMES; RISK ASSESSMENT; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84903760006     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12534     Document Type: Article

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