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Facilitated Adaptation for Conservation – Can Gene Editing Save Hawaii's Endangered Birds from Climate Driven Avian Malaria?

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Michael D Samuel, Wei Liao, Carter T Atkinson, and Dennis Lapointe, Facilitated Adaptation for Conservation – Can Gene Editing Save Hawaii's Endangered Birds from Climate Driven Avian Malaria?: Biological Conservation, v. 241.

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Abstract (from ScienceDirect): Avian malaria has played a significant role in causing extinctions, population declines, and limiting the elevational distribution of Hawaiian honeycreepers. Most threatened and endangered honeycreepers only exist in high-elevation forests where the risk of malaria infection is limited. Because Culex mosquito vectors and avian malaria dynamics are strongly influenced by temperature and rainfall, future climate change is predicted to expand malaria infection to high-elevation forests and intensify malaria infection at lower elevations, likely resulting in future extinctions and loss of avian biodiversity in Hawaii. Novel, landscape-level mosquito control strategies are promising, but are logistically challenging [...]

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  • National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers
  • Pacific Islands CASC

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citationTypeJournal Article
journalBiological Conservation
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typeDOI
value10.1016/j.biocon.2019.108390
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