title: Exploiting parallels between livestock and wildlife: Predicting the impact of climate change on gastrointestinal nematodes in ruminants.
abstract: Global change, including climate, policy, land use and other associated environmental changes, is likely to have a major impact on parasitic disease in wildlife, altering the spatio-temporal patterns of transmission, with wide-ranging implications for wildlife, domestic animals, humans and ecosystem health. Predicting the potential impact of climate change on parasites infecting wildlife will become increasingly important in the management of species of conservation concern and control of disease at the wildlife-livestock and wildlife-human interface, but is confounded by incomplete knowledge of host-parasite interactions, logistical difficulties, small sample sizes and limited opportunities to manipulate the system. By exploiting parallels between livestock and wildlife, existing theoretical frameworks and research on livestock and their gastrointestinal nematodes can be adapted to wildlife systems. Similarities in the gastrointestinal nematodes and the life-histories of wild and domestic ruminants, coupled with a detailed knowledge of the ecology and life-cycle of the parasites, render the ruminant-GIN host-parasite system particularly amenable to a cross-disciplinary approach.
authors.affiliation: School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1UG, UK.
authors.forename: Hannah
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rose
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary T2N 4N1, Canada.
authors.forename: Bryanne
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hoar
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary T2N 4N1, Canada ; Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre, Calgary T2N 4N1, Canada.
authors.forename: Susan J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Kutz
authors.affiliation: School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1UG, UK ; School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS40 5DU, UK.
authors.forename: Eric R
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Morgan
keywords: Climate change; Gastrointestinal nematodes; Host–parasite interactions; Modelling; Ruminants; Transmission dynamics