Katherine Bardsley

Abstract Background: Emerging respiratory disease outbreaks pose a major threat to food production systems. Agricultural workers face health disparities that amplify their susceptibility to respiratory pathogens, yet the consequences for worker health and food production remain poorly understood.

1 Introduction From changing temperatures and precipitation patterns to increasing frequency and intensity of extreme events, understanding how climate change will affect the biodiversity and functioning of ecosystems is a major challenge (Grimm et al. 2013; Parmesan 2006). Mountain ecosystems, which represent one fifth of the Earth's land surface and harbor unique plant communities that contribute substantially to global biodiversity (Körner 2024) and water provisioning (Barnett et al.