[HTML][HTML] Infectious disease in an era of global change

RE Baker, AS Mahmud, IF Miller, M Rajeev… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
The twenty-first century has witnessed a wave of severe infectious disease outbreaks, not
least the COVID-19 pandemic, which has had a devastating impact on lives and livelihoods …

[HTML][HTML] The science of the host–virus network

GF Albery, DJ Becker, L Brierley, CE Brook… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Better methods to predict and prevent the emergence of zoonotic viruses could support
future efforts to reduce the risk of epidemics. We propose a network science framework for …

Shifts in global bat diversity suggest a possible role of climate change in the emergence of SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2

RM Beyer, A Manica, C Mora - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Bats are the likely zoonotic origin of several coronaviruses (CoVs) that infect humans,
including SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2, both of which have caused large-scale …

[HTML][HTML] Biological invasions facilitate zoonotic disease emergences

L Zhang, J Rohr, R Cui, Y Xin, L Han, X Yang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Outbreaks of zoonotic diseases are accelerating at an unprecedented rate in the current era
of globalization, with substantial impacts on the global economy, public health, and …

How deregulation, drought and increasing fire impact Amazonian biodiversity

X Feng, C Merow, Z Liu, DS Park, PR Roehrdanz… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Biodiversity contributes to the ecological and climatic stability of the Amazon Basin,, but is
increasingly threatened by deforestation and fire,. Here we quantify these impacts over the …

Ecosystem perspectives are needed to manage zoonotic risks in a changing climate

R Gibb, LHV Franklinos, DW Redding, KE Jones - bmj, 2020 - bmj.com
Ecosystem perspectives are needed to manage zoonotic risks in a changing climate Page 1
CLIMATE CHANGE AND COMMUNICABLE DISEASES Ecosystem perspectives are needed …

[HTML][HTML] Did climate change influence the emergence, transmission, and expression of the COVID-19 pandemic?

S Gupta, BT Rouse, PP Sarangi - Frontiers in medicine, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The human race has survived many epidemics and pandemics that have emerged and
reemerged throughout history. The novel coronavirus Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome …

What would it take to describe the global diversity of parasites?

CJ Carlson, TA Dallas… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
How many parasites are there on Earth? Here, we use helminth parasites to highlight how
little is known about parasite diversity, and how insufficient our current approach will be to …

[PDF][PDF] Human-mediated impacts on biodiversity and the consequences for zoonotic disease spillover

CK Glidden, N Nova, MP Kain, KM Lagerstrom… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Human-mediated changes to natural ecosystems have consequences for both ecosystem
and human health. Historically, efforts to preserve or restore 'biodiversity'can seem to be in …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting the global mammalian viral sharing network using phylogeography

GF Albery, EA Eskew, N Ross, KJ Olival - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Understanding interspecific viral transmission is key to understanding viral ecology and
evolution, disease spillover into humans, and the consequences of global change. Prior …