Description
Climate, Ticks and Disease brings together expert opinions from scientists to consider the evidence for climate change and its impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections. It considers what is meant by ‘climate change’, how effective climate models are in relation to ecosystems, and provides predictions for changes in climate at global, regional and local scales relevant for ticks and tick-borne infections. It examines changes to tick distribution and the evidence that climate change is responsible. The effect of climate on the physiology and behaviour of ticks is stressed, including potentially critical impacts on the tick microbiome. Given that the notoriety of ticks derives from pathogens they transmit, the book considers whether changes in climate affect vector capacity. Ticks transmit a remarkable range of micro- and macro-parasites many of which are pathogens of humans and domesticated animals. 589 p.
Series: CABI Climate Change, vol. 12
- .Patt Nuttall, Editor. Emeritus Professor of Arbovirology, and Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford (UK).
- Publication date (digital version): 2021-12.
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