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Climate change impacts on bird migration and highly pathogenic avian influenza

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The unprecedented extent of highly pathogenic avian influenza coincides with intensifying global climate changes that alter host ecology and physiology, and could impact virus evolution and dynamics.

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Fig. 1: Climate processes affect HPAI disease dynamics via changes in host and virus ecology at multiple spatial and temporal scales.

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The use of trade, product, or firm names in this publication is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the US Government. This work was supported in part by the USGS Ecosystems Mission Area and the National Science Foundation (grant nos. 2200310 and 2234970).

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  2. NASA Ames Research Center and Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Claire S. Teitelbaum

  3. Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Center for Earth Observation and Modeling, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

    Shenglai Yin & Xiangming Xiao

  4. Biology Department, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, USA

    Nichola J. Hill

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Prosser, D.J., Teitelbaum, C.S., Yin, S. et al. Climate change impacts on bird migration and highly pathogenic avian influenza. Nat Microbiol 8, 2223–2225 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-023-01538-0

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