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Climate change is affecting parasites, but not in the way you’d expect.
Proof of Concept is a video series profiling the science and scientists behind some of the environment’s most unexpected research. To see a written version of this story, visit our website:
grist.org/video/parasite-climate-change-ecosystem-health-science
Video by Jesse Nichols
Senior Producer: Daniel Penner
Deputy Editor: Teresa Chin
Executive Editor: Kat Bagley
Illustrator: Estelle Caswell
Additional video: Jessey Dearing
Sources:
Chelsea Wood:
chelsealwood.com
Kevin Lafferty
Armand Kuris
Wood et al. 2023
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2211903120
Quinn et al. 2021
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rspb.2020.3036
Claar et al. 2021
amnh.org/content/download/329217/5034298/file/parasite-biodiversity.pdf
Sato, Takuya et al. 2011
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1890/09-1565.1
Climate change is affecting parasites, but not in the way you’d expect.
Proof of Concept is a video series profiling the science and scientists behind some of the environment’s most unexpected research. To see a written version of this story, visit our website:
grist.org/video/parasite-climate-change-ecosystem-health-science
Video by Jesse Nichols
Senior Producer: Daniel Penner
Deputy Editor: Teresa Chin
Executive Editor: Kat Bagley
Illustrator: Estelle Caswell
Additional video: Jessey Dearing
Sources:
Chelsea Wood:
chelsealwood.com
Kevin Lafferty
Armand Kuris
Wood et al. 2023
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2211903120
Quinn et al. 2021
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rspb.2020.3036
Claar et al. 2021
amnh.org/content/download/329217/5034298/file/parasite-biodiversity.pdf
Sato, Takuya et al. 2011
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1890/09-1565.1
