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Why biological diversity may be good for your health: A review paper written at a CIDD workshop discusses how human impacts on biodiversity can increase the prevalence of some important diseases.
Climate change and fungal disease in amphibians: Many amphibian extinctions in recent decades were apparently caused by a fungal disease. But what underlies increased disease incidence? Has climate change ...
Parasites and climate change: A long-term study of worms in rabbits, combined with mathematical modeling, examines how host-parasite dynamics change with increased environmental temperature.
Variable temperatures increase amphibian disease risk: Field evidence suggests that amphibians' ability to fight infections depends strongly on environmental temperature.