Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Incorporating hydrology into climate suitability models changes projections of malaria transmission in Africa

  • M. W. Smith,
  • T. Willis,
  • L. Alfieri,
  • W. H. M. James,
  • M. A. Trigg,
  • D. Yamazaki,
  • A. J. Hardy,
  • B. Bisselink,
  • A. De Roo,
  • M. G. Macklin,
  • C. J. Thomas

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18239-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Prior studies mapping climatologically suitable areas for malaria transmission have used relatively simple thresholds for precipitation. Here the authors show that when models incorporate hydrological processes a more complex pattern of malaria suitability emerges in Africa and future shifts in suitability are more pronounced.