The disease ecology community has struggled to come to consensus on whether
biodiversity reduces or increases infectious disease risk, a question that directly affects …

For decades, people have reduced the transmission of pathogens by adding low‐quality
hosts to managed environments like agricultural fields. More recently, there has been …

Land use change—for example, the conversion of natural habitats to agricultural or urban
ecosystems—is widely recognized to influence the risk and emergence of zoonotic disease …

The incidence of tick-borne diseases has increased in recent decades and accounts for the
majority of vector-borne disease cases in temperate areas of Europe, North America, and …

In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, biologists are working hard to screen many
species of wild animals to logically pinpoint the exact origin of the virus. Now, researchers …

How to feed, house, clothe and power 11 billion of us without eliminating very many species
and wrecking Earth's climate is perhaps this century's greatest challenge. We must obviously …

Ecosystem perspectives are needed to manage zoonotic risks in a changing climate Page 1
CLIMATE CHANGE AND COMMUNICABLE DISEASES Ecosystem perspectives are needed …

Emerging diseases caused by coronaviruses of likely bat origin (eg, SARS, MERS, SADS,
COVID-19) have disrupted global health and economies for two decades. Evidence …

The ongoing COVID‐19 pandemic is a stark reminder of the devastating consequences of
pathogen spillover from wildlife to human hosts, particularly in densely populated urban …

Airborne microbiome alterations, an emerging global health concern, have been linked to
anthropogenic activities in numerous studies. However, these studies have not reached a …