We review our ecological understanding of wildlife infectious diseases from the individual
host to the ecosystem scale, highlighting where conceptual thinking lacks verification …

Large-scale anthropogenic changes to the natural environment, including land-use change,
climate change, and the deterioration of ecosystem services, are all accelerating. These …

Flea-borne zoonoses such as plague (Yersinia pestis) and murine typhus (Rickettsia typhi)
caused significant numbers of human cases in the past and remain a public health concern …

Most human diseases come from nature, from pathogens that live and breed in non-human
animals and are" accidentally" transmitted to us. Human illness is only the culmination of a …

Abstract Fauna of North America's Great Plains evolved strategies to contend with the
region's extreme spatiotemporal variability in weather and low annual primary productivity …

Plague has been known since ancient times as a re‐emerging infectious disease, causing
considerable socioeconomic burden in regional hotspots. To better understand the …

Plague is a flea-borne zoonotic bacterial disease caused by Yersinia pestis. It has caused
three historical pandemics, including the Black Death which killed nearly a third of Europe's …

The incidence of plague has rebounded in the Americas, Asia, and Africa alongside rapid
globalization and climate change. Previous studies have shown local climate to have …

Black-footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes) require extensive prairie dog colonies (Cynomys
spp.) to provide habitat and prey. Epizootic plague kills both prairie dogs and ferrets and is a …

Many infectious diseases of humans, including ma laria, dengue, cholera, and
schistosomiasis, are restricted to, or more prevalent in, tropical and subtropical zones. Within …