Changing climate and the altitudinal range of avian malaria in the Hawaiian Islands - An ongoing conservation crisis on the island of Kaua'i

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2426-2436

  Atkinson, Carter T ^a   Utzurrum, Ruth B ^b   Lapointe, Dennis A ^a   Camp, Richard J ^b   Crampton, Lisa H ^c   Foster, Jeffrey T ^d   Giambelluca, Thomas W ^e,f  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

^c Kaua'i Endangered Seabird Recovery Project   (United States)

^d NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^f NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Disease transmission; Hawai'i; Honeycreeper; Plasmodium relictum; Streamflow; Threatened species

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MALARIA; MOSQUITO; PARASITE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STREAMFLOW;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; KAUAI; UNITED STATES;

AVES; CHASIEMPIS; CHASIEMPIS SANDWICHENSIS; CHASIEMPIS SCLATERI; CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; LOXOPS CAERULEIROSTRIS; OREOMYSTIS BAIRDI; PLASMODIUM RELICTUM;

PROTOZOAL DNA; RAIN;

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CULEX; DISEASE CARRIER; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MALARIA, AVIAN; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; PREVALENCE; RIVER; SONGBIRD; TEMPERATURE; TRANSMISSION; UNITED STATES;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CULEX; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HAWAII; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA, AVIAN; PASSERIFORMES; PLASMODIUM; PREVALENCE; RAIN; RIVERS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84903786664     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12535     Document Type: Article

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