Much of the early research on climate change and infectious disease emphasized the potential for increases in disease risk under future climate scenarios, with range expansion or changes in seasonality anticipated to lead to net increases in transmission 1. Jeremy Burdon and Jiasui Zhan also emphasize the need to improve mechanistic understanding of the influence of abiotic factors for plant pathogens, but highlight additionally how patterns might play out differently in simplified, managed (that is, agricultural) ecosystems compared to more complex natural systems 6. ...increasing understanding of how climate change can affect the dynamics and distribution of infectious disease has never been more relevant.