Open AccessDisease Ecology, Biodiversity, and the Latitudinal Gradient in Income
Author(s) -
Matthew H. Bonds,
Andrew P. Dobson,
Donald C. Keenan
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
plos biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.127
H-Index - 271
eISSN - 1545-7885
pISSN - 1544-9173
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001456
Subject(s) - biodiversity , biology , ecology , spurious relationship , per capita income , tropics , disease , causality (physics) , salient , natural resource economics , economics , demography , geography , statistics , medicine , physics , mathematics , archaeology , pathology , quantum mechanics , sociology
Vector-borne and parasitic diseases are drivers of the latitudinal gradient in income, and the burden of these diseases is predicted to rise as biodiversity falls.
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