Plague and climate: scales matter.

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dc.creatorBen-Ari, Tamara
dc.creatorNeerinckx, Simon
dc.creatorGage, Kenneth
dc.creatorKreppel, Katharina
dc.creatorLaudisoit, Anne
dc.creatorLeirs, Herwig
dc.creatorStenseth, Nils Chr.
dc.date2020-01-23T08:59:53Z
dc.date2020-01-23T08:59:53Z
dc.date2011-09-01
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-25T09:20:50Z
dc.date.available2022-10-25T09:20:50Z
dc.descriptionResearch Articles published by PLoS Pathogens
dc.descriptionPlague is enzootic in wildlife populations of small mammals in central and eastern Asia, Africa, South and North America, and has been recognized recently as a reemerging threat to humans. Its causative agent Yersinia pestis relies on wild rodent hosts and flea vectors for its maintenance in nature. Climate influences all three components (i.e., bacteria, vectors, and hosts) of the plague system and is a likely factor to explain some of plague's variability from small and regional to large scales. Here, we review effects of climate variables on plague hosts and vectors from individual or population scales to studies on the whole plague system at a large scale. Upscaled versions of small-scale processes are often invoked to explain plague variability in time and space at larger scales, presumably because similar scale-independent mechanisms underlie these relationships. This linearity assumption is discussed in the light of recent research that suggests some of its limitations.
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dc.identifier21949648
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1002160
dc.identifierhttp://dspace.nm-aist.ac.tz/handle/123456789/534
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/95287
dc.languageen
dc.publisherPLoS Pathogens
dc.subjectResearch Subject Categories::NATURAL SCIENCES
dc.titlePlague and climate: scales matter.
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