Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Parasites of Madagascar's lemurs expanding with climate change

EurekAlert: Rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns in Madagascar could fuel the spread of lemur parasites and the diseases they carry. By combining data on six parasite species from ongoing surveys of lemur health with weather data and other environmental information for Madagascar as a whole, a team of Duke University researchers has created probability maps of likely parasite distributions throughout the island today. Then, using climate projections for the year 2080, they estimate what parasite...

URL: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-01/du-pom012313.php
Enclosure: http://media.eurekalert.org/multimedia_prod/pub/web/52070_web.jpg

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