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Warmer world gets sicker – meta-analysis reveals strong increase in parasitism at elevated temperatures across diverse host-parasite systems

2026-03-18

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Climate change is expected to alter infectious disease dynamics worldwide, yet evidence that rising temperatures increase infection (warmer, sicker world hypothesis; WSWH) remains equivocal. We conducted a meta-analysis of 775 effect sizes from 124 experimental studies spanning terrestrial, freshwater, and marine host−parasite systems to test whether warming increases parasitism. Elevated temperatures increased in...

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Literature Corpus work: bf800823-a4e1-5673-a528-ffa1b49551eb
DOI: 10.64898/2026.03.16.712045

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