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areas based on an ensemble of six future climate scenarios, which can help public
managers decide where to allocate scarce surveillance resources.
KEYWORDS
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Climate data
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Geocoded locations
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Maxent
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Modoc plateau
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Plague
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Rodent samples
AUTHORS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Ashley C. Holt, Curtis L. Fritz, James R. Tucker, and Peng Gong designed the study.
Ashley C. Holt conducted spatial analysis and Maxent modeling, and contributed to
the writing of the manuscript. Daniel J. Salkeld contributed to the analysis of carnivore
data and to the interpretation of model results. Curtis L. Fritz and James R. Tucker
conducted field sampling and collated the data used in this study, and were instru-
mental in analyzing model results in the context of recent trends in plague activity in
California. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors would like to thank Lynette Yang for assistance with geocoding. We are
grateful to the two anonymous reviewers for their comments and to Mark Novak, Ken-
neth Gage, and Charles Smith for providing guidance and feedback at various stages
of this project. Funding for open-access publication fees was provided by a grant from
the Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (BRII).
Disclaimer
The findings and conclusions of this chapter are those of the author(s) and do not nec-
essarily reflect the views of the California Department of Public Health.
COMPETING INTERESTS
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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