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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Cizauskas CA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5319317 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Royal Society open science 20170111 1
Despite the number of virulent pathogens that are projected to benefit from global change and to spread in the next century, we suggest that a combination of coextinction risk and climate sensitivity could make parasites at least as extinction prone as any other trophic group. However, the existing interdisciplinary toolbox for identifying species threatened by climate change is inadequate or inappropriate when considering parasites as conservation targets. A functional trait approach can be use ...[more]