Parasites are agents of disease in humans, livestock, crops, and wildlife and are powerful representations of the ecological and historical context of the diseases they cause. Recognizing a nexus of professional opportunities and global public need, we gathered at the Cedar Point Biological Station of the University of Nebraska in September 2012 to formulate a cooperative and broad platform for providing essential information about the evolution, ecology, and epidemiology of parasites across host groups, parasite groups, geographical regions, and ecosystem types. A general protocol, documentation–assessment–monitoring–action (DAMA), suggests an integrated proposal to build a proactive capacity to understand, anticipate, and respond to the outcomes of accelerating environmental change. We seek to catalyze discussion and mobilize action within the parasitological community and, more widely, among zoologists and disease ecologists at a time of expanding environmental perturbation.
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1 July 2014
Finding Them Before They Find Us: Informatics, Parasites, and Environments in Accelerating Climate Change
Daniel R. Brooks,
Eric P. Hoberg,
Walter A. Boeger,
Scott L. Gardner,
Kurt E. Galbreath,
Dávid Herczeg,
Hugo H. Mejía-Madrid,
S. Elizabeth Rácz,
Altangerel Tsogtsaikhan Dursahinhan
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Comparative Parasitology
Vol. 81 • No. 2
July 2014
Vol. 81 • No. 2
July 2014
biodiversity
climate change
documentation–assessment–monitoring–action
ecology
emerging infectious disease
epidemiology
evolution
