Vector movement underlies avian malaria at upper elevation in Hawaii: implications for transmission of human malaria
- Author:
- Freed, Leonard A., Cann, Rebecca L.
- Title:
- Vector movement underlies avian malaria at upper elevation in Hawaii: implications for transmission of human malaria
- Periodical:
- Parasitology Research
- Year:
- 2013
- Volume:
- 112
- Pages:
- 3887-3895
- Subject:
- Avian malaria Plasmodium relictum Mosquito vector Birds Hawaii Island Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge
- Summary:
- An enhanced-mosquito-movement model (EMM) from climate warming predicts increased transmission of malaria at upper elevation sites that are too cool for parasite development in the mosquito vector. We evaluate this model with avian malaria at 1,900-m elevation on the Island of Hawaii. On a well-defined site over a 14-year period, 10 of 14 species of native and introduced birds became infected. Greater movement of infectious mosquitoes from lower elevations now permits avian malaria to spread at 1,900 m in Hawaii, in advance of climate warming at that elevation.
- Label:
- Birds - General
- Date:
- November 2013
- Collection:
- Periodicals