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Project Code [2020-HW-MS-19]
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Project title
Can we use metabolic theory of ecology to predict disease outbreaks in a warming world?
Primary Funding Agency
Science Foundation Ireland
Co-Funding Organisation(s)
Environmental Protection Agency
Lead Organisation
University of Dublin, Trinity College (TCD)
Lead Applicant
Pepijn Luijckx
Project Abstract
Vaccination and culling programs are based on the notion that lower host densities slow disease spread to a point where host densities are unable to maintain infection. However, experimental evidence for these host density thresholds is weak. Here we develop the Daphnia magna - Ordospora colligata animal - microparasite system to provide a direct test of this theory under multiple temperature regimes. We use the collected data to develop and test a modelling framework based on metabolic rates, which could be applied to numerous disease systems, to predict how disease outbreaks are affected by a changing climate. N/A SFI Frontiers for the Future
Grant Approved
�243,803.00
Research Hub
Healthy Environment
Research Theme
Health and well being
Initial Projected Completion Date
31/08/2024