Assessing the effects of climate on host-parasite interactions: a comparative study of European birds and their parasites.

Climate change potentially has important effects on distribution, abundance, transmission and virulence of parasites in wild populations of animals.Here we analyzed paired information on 89 parasite populations for 24 species of bird hosts some years ago and again in 2010 with an average interval of...

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Main Authors: Anders Pape Møller, Santiago Merino, Juan José Soler, Anton Antonov, Elisa P Badás, Miguel A Calero-Torralbo, Florentino de Lope, Tapio Eeva, Jordi Figuerola, Einar Flensted-Jensen, Laszlo Z Garamszegi, Sonia González-Braojos, Helga Gwinner, Sveinn Are Hanssen, Dieter Heylen, Petteri Ilmonen, Kurt Klarborg, Erkki Korpimäki, Javier Martínez, Josue Martínez-de la Puente, Alfonso Marzal, Erik Matthysen, Piotr Matyjasiak, Mercedes Molina-Morales, Juan Moreno, Timothy A Mousseau, Jan Tøttrup Nielsen, Péter László Pap, Juan Rivero-de Aguilar, Peter Shurulinkov, Tore Slagsvold, Tibor Szép, Eszter Szöllősi, Janos Török, Radovan Vaclav, Francisco Valera, Nadia Ziane
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3876993?pdf=render