Wildlife health as an indicator of climate change

BELDOMENICO PM; JOLY D; UHART M; KARESH W

Global Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events: Understanding the Contributions to Infectious Disease Emergence

The National Academies Press

Lugar: Washington; Año: 2008; p. 179 - 197

The changes in climate we are experiencing as global warming and disturbance in precipitation regimes (IPCC, 2001) are having an impact on the health of wild animals, with resulting deleterious impacts on major human interests. In this paper, we review the relationship between climate change and wildlife health and argue that monitoring wildlife health provides an effective and sensitive indicator and predictor of climate-related emerging infectious diseases