Journal
COMPARATIVE PARASITOLOGY
Volume 81, Issue 2, Pages 155-164Publisher
HELMINTHOLOGICAL SOC WASHINGTON
DOI: 10.1654/4724b.1
Keywords
documentation-assessment-monitoring-action; climate change; biodiversity; emerging infectious disease; parasites; hosts; epidemiology; ecology; evolution
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Funding
- National Science Foundation (DEB-Biodiversity Discovery and Analysis) [1258010-1256832-1256493]
- Visitante Especial Grant (Ciencia Sem Fronteira) - Conselho de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq), Brazil
- Division Of Environmental Biology
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1256832, 1258010] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Environmental Biology
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1256943] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Parasites are agents of disease in humans, livestock, crops, and wildlife and are powerful representations of the ecological and historical context of the diseases they cause. Recognizing a nexus of professional opportunities and global public need, we gathered at the Cedar Point Biological Station of the University of Nebraska in September 2012 to formulate a cooperative and broad platform for providing essential information about the evolution, ecology, and epidemiology of parasites across host groups, parasite groups, geographical regions, and ecosystem types. A general protocol, documentation assessment monitoring action (DAMA), suggests an integrated proposal to build a proactive capacity to understand, anticipate, and respond to the outcomes of accelerating environmental change. We seek to catalyze discussion and mobilize action within the parasitological community and, more widely, among zoologists and disease ecologists at a time of expanding environmental perturbation.
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