Zoonotic diseases are major causes of infection related morbidity and mortality worldwide.
Of the various arthropods capable of transmitting pathogens that cause such diseases to …

The planet's mean air and ocean temperatures have been rising over the last century
because of increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These changes have substantial …

The confidence in projected impacts of climate change on agricultural systems has
increased substantially since the first Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) …

The projected climate-change signal in simulations by the Conformal-Cubic Atmospheric
Model (CCAM) over southern Africa is presented, with particular emphasis on the projected …

Aim To examine the impacts of climate change on endemic birds, which are of global
significance for conservation, on a continent with few such assessments. We specifically …

The current review focuses on characterization and conservation efforts vital for the
development of breeding programmes for indigenous beef cattle genetic resources in …

Animal diseases in production and subsistence environments have the potential to
negatively affect consumers, producers, and economies as a whole. A growing global …

Evidence is provided of the successful application of a single atmospheric model code at
time scales ranging from short-range weather forecasting through to projections of future …

Farmers in Africa—like those across the globe—face rising temperatures and more extreme
weather associated with climate change (Snyder 2016; IPCC 2012). Much of Africa's …

Simple Summary After domestication in specific regions, livestock followed human
migrations and colonized the whole world. During this population expansion, human and …