Impacts of Human-Driven Change On Argentine Forests: Good for Parasites, Bad for Birds

A new report by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Disease Ecology Laboratory of Instituto de Ciencias Veterinarias del Litoral, Argentina (ICIVET LITORAL, UNL-CONICET) shows that increases in precipitation and changes in vegetative structure in Argentine forests - factors driven by climate change and deforestation in the region - are leading to increased parasitism of young nesting birds by fly larvae (botflies) of the species Philornis torquans.

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