| 项目编号: | 1701777
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| 项目名称: | DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Forecasting potential effects of climate on tick-borne disease dynamics in Central Panama |
| 作者: | Brian Allan
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| 承担单位: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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| 批准年: | 2017
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| 开始日期: | 2017-07-01
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| 结束日期: | 2018-06-30
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| 资助金额: | 20542
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| 资助来源: | US-NSF
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| 项目类别: | Standard Grant
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| 国家: | US
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 特色学科分类: | Biological Sciences - Environmental Biology
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| 英文关键词: | tick-borne disease
; tick-borne
; disease
; climate
; tick
; research
; effect
; different climate
; other climate
; climate variable
; climate modeling
; central panama
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| 英文摘要: | Ticks can pass on diseases to all animals they bite, including humans. These "tick-borne" diseases can be very harmful, causing illnesses, deaths, and economic losses. To prevent and reduce tick-borne diseases, it is important to understand how risk of passing on these diseases may differ among geographic regions and times of year. Because ticks live outside, their ability to survive and reproduce is likely affected by rainfall and temperature. In climates where ticks survive well, there may be a higher chance of them carrying and passing on diseases. This research will help determine how climate affects the risk of tick-borne disease by examining tick activity and survival across different climates and times of year. The study sites are close to each other yet have very different climates, providing a rare opportunity to examine the effects of climate on ticks and tick-borne diseases. Results of this project can be used to develop public health programs aimed at preventing or reducing the spread of tick-borne disease.
This research will evaluate how abiotic and biotic variables affect spatial and temporal variation in the abundance of ticks and prevalence of tick-borne pathogens across central Panama. To fully characterize the effects of climate on tick-borne disease risk, researchers will integrate field sampling of ticks and wildlife hosts with pathogen analysis and climate modeling. They will then construct a comprehensive model to quantify the abiotic and biotic pathways by which climate variables determine the frequency of tick-borne diseases across the region. The model will inform regional policy and public health decisions and will provide a broad framework upon which other climate and tick-borne disease studies may be built. |
| 资源类型: | 项目
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/89904
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| Appears in Collections: | 全球变化的国际研究计划
科学计划与规划
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Brian Allan. DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Forecasting potential effects of climate on tick-borne disease dynamics in Central Panama. 2017-01-01.
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