The consequences of human actions on risks for infectious diseases: a review

JF Lindahl, D Grace - Infection ecology & epidemiology, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The human population is growing, requiring more space for food production, and needing
more animals to feed it. Emerging infectious diseases are increasing, causing losses in both …

One health for all: advancing human and ecosystem health in cities by integrating an environmental justice lens

MH Murray, J Buckley, KA Byers, K Fake… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
We are facing interwoven global threats to public health and ecosystem function that reveal
the intrinsic connections between human and wildlife health. These challenges are …

Socio‐eco‐evolutionary dynamics in cities

S Des Roches, KI Brans, MR Lambert… - Evolutionary …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cities are uniquely complex systems regulated by interactions and feedbacks between
nature and human society. Characteristics of human society—including culture, economics …

[HTML][HTML] Citizen science provides a reliable and scalable tool to track disease-carrying mosquitoes

JRB Palmer, A Oltra, F Collantes, JA Delgado… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Recent outbreaks of Zika, chikungunya and dengue highlight the importance of better
understanding the spread of disease-carrying mosquitoes across multiple spatio-temporal …

The ecological foundations of transmission potential and vector‐borne disease in urban landscapes

SL LaDeau, BF Allan, PT Leisnham… - Functional …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Urban transmission of arthropod‐vectored disease has increased in recent decades.
Understanding and managing transmission potential in urban landscapes requires …

Dynamic heterogeneity: a framework to promote ecological integration and hypothesis generation in urban systems

STA Pickett, ML Cadenasso, EJ Rosi-Marshall… - Urban …, 2017 - Springer
Urban areas are understood to be extraordinarily spatially heterogeneous. Spatial
heterogeneity, and its causes, consequences, and changes, are central to ecological …

Socio‐ecological drivers of multiple zoonotic hazards in highly urbanized cities

MA Combs, PA Kache, MC VanAcker… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Fine-scale variation in microclimate across an urban landscape shapes variation in mosquito population dynamics and the potential of Aedes albopictus to transmit …

CC Murdock, MV Evans, TD McClanahan… - PLoS neglected …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Most statistical and mechanistic models used to predict mosquito-borne disease
transmission incorporate climate drivers of disease transmission by utilizing environmental …

Estimating Past, Present, and Future Trends in the Global Distribution and Abundance of the Arbovirus Vector Aedes aegypti Under Climate Change Scenarios

J Liu-Helmersson, Å Brännström, MO Sewe… - Frontiers in public …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Background: Aedes aegypti is the principal vector for several important arbovirus diseases,
including dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever, and Zika. While recent empirical research has …

Analyzing mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) diversity in Pakistan by DNA barcoding

M Ashfaq, PDN Hebert, JH Mirza, AM Khan, Y Zafar… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Background Although they are important disease vectors mosquito biodiversity in Pakistan is
poorly known. Recent epidemics of dengue fever have revealed the need for more detailed …