Assessing Surveillance of Wildlife Diseases by Determining Mammal Species Vulnerability to Climate Change.

ABSTRACT: Climate change is one of the drivers of wildlife-borne disease emergence, as it can affect species abundance and fitness, host immunocompetence, and interactions with pathogens. To detect emerging wildlife-borne diseases, countries may implement general wildlife-disease surveillance systems. Such surveillance exists in the Netherlands. However, it is unclear how well it covers host species vulnerable to climate change and consequently disease emergence in these species. Therefore, we performed a trait-based vulnerability assessment (TVA) to quantify species vulnerability to climate change for 59 Dutch terrestrial mammals. Species' vulnerability was estimated based on the magnitude of climatic change within the species' distribution (exposure), the species' potential to persist in situ</

SUBMITTER: Wijburg SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12016766 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature