Downscaling reveals diverse effects of anthropogenic climate warming on the potential for local environments to support malaria transmission

Climatic Change

Volumn 125, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 479-488

  Paaijmans, Krijn P ^a,b   Blanford, Justine I ^a   Crane, Robert G ^a   Mann, Michael E ^a   Ning, Liang ^a,c   Schreiber, Kathleen V ^d   Thomas, Matthew B ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASES;

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE; BIOPHYSICAL PROCESS; INTERMEDIATE CONDITIONS; LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS; MALARIA TRANSMISSION; MICROCLIMATIC CONDITIONS; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 84905389697     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1172-6     Document Type: Article

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