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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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Abstract

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.

The Helminthological Society of Washington
Daniel R. Brooks, Eric P. Hoberg, Walter A. Boeger, Scott L. Gardner, Kurt E. Galbreath, Dávid Herczeg, Hugo H. Mejía-Madrid, S. Elizabeth Rácz, and Altangerel Tsogtsaikhan Dursahinhan "Finding Them Before They Find Us: Informatics, Parasites, and Environments in Accelerating Climate Change," Comparative Parasitology 81(2), 155-164, (1 July 2014). https://doi.org/10.1654/4724b.1
Published: 1 July 2014
KEYWORDS
biodiversity
climate change
documentation–assessment–monitoring–action
ecology
emerging infectious disease
epidemiology
evolution
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