When facing an emerging infectious disease of conservation concern, we often have little
information on the nature of the host‐parasite interaction to inform management decisions …

The dilution effect predicts increasing biodiversity to reduce the risk of infection, but the
generality of this effect remains unresolved. Because biodiversity loss generates predictable …

Pathogen-induced population declines and extinction events have been recognized as main
threats to amphibian species around the globe. However, the ecological drivers underlying …

Biodiversity loss may increase the risk of infectious disease in a phenomenon known as the
dilution effect. Circumstances that increase the likelihood of disease dilution are:(i) when …

Abstract Changes in biodiversity may impact infectious disease transmission through
multiple mechanisms. We explored the impact of biodiversity changes on the transmission of …

Integrating how biodiversity and infectious disease dynamics are linked at multiple levels
and scales is highly challenging. Chagas disease is a vector‐borne disease, with …

Predicting how climate change will affect disease risk is complicated by the fact that
changing environmental conditions can affect disease through direct and indirect effects …

Quantifying the relative impact of environmental conditions and host community structure on
disease is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century, as both climate and …

Disease (re) emergence appears to be driven by biodiversity decline and environmental
change. As a result, it is increasingly important to study host–pathogen interactions within …

Classical theory suggests that parasites will exhibit higher fitness in sympatric relative to
allopatric host populations (local adaptation). However, evidence for local adaptation in …