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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Chaves, Luis Fernando
• Jones, T. Hefin
• Johnson, Scott N

Titel

Climate Change and the Biology of Insect Vectors of Human Pathogens

Ist Teil von

• Global Climate Change and Terrestrial Invertebrates, 2017, p.126-147

Ort / Verlag

Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

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Quelle

Wiley Online Library All Obooks

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This chapter focuses on the impacts of changing climate on arthropod vectors of disease, their relationship with the pathogens they transmit, and the implications of these phenomena for disease transmission,ceteris paribus, that is, assuming everything else stays the same. It introduces a case study that illustrates some of the complexities present when untangling the potential role of climate change on the distribution of disease vectors. Useful concepts to study impacts of climate change on insect vectors of disease are illustrated with this study on changes in the distribution of two major globally invasive vectors: Aedes albopictus and Aedes japonicus, facing the emergence of Aedes flavopictus, formerly a rare species along an altitudinal gradient in Nagasaki, Japan. The basic pattern that has been observed regarding the impact of temperature on pathogens developing inside vectors of disease is that the extrinsic incubation period (EIP).