Does biodiversity protect humans against infectious disease? Reply | Zendy

Wood Chelsea L. | Zendy; Lafferty Kevin D. | Zendy; DeLeo Giulio | Zendy; Young Hillary S. | Zendy; Hudson Peter J. | Zendy; Kuris Armand M. | Zendy

AI Assistant Blog Pricing

Home ZAIA Blog

Premium

Does biodiversity protect humans against infectious disease? Reply

Author(s) -

Wood Chelsea L.,

Lafferty Kevin D.,

DeLeo Giulio,

Young Hillary S.,

Hudson Peter J.,

Kuris Armand M.

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

ecology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.144

H-Index - 294

eISSN - 1939-9170

pISSN - 0012-9658

DOI - 10.1890/15-1503.1

Subject(s) - biodiversity , ecology , archaeology , library science , history , environmental ethics , biology , philosophy , computer science

and pathogen dynamics . Israel Journal of Ecology & Evolution 1 – 13 . Southwick , C. H. , and F. C. Cadigan . 1972 . Population studies of Malaysian primates . Primates 13 : 1 – 18 . Terborgh , J. , et al. 2001 . Ecological meltdown in predatorfree forest fragments . Science 294 : 1923 – 1926 . Thompson , R. , and D. P. McManus . 2002 . Towards a taxonomic revision of the genus Echinococcus . Trends in Parasitology 18 : 452 – 457 . Wilmers , C. C. , and T. Levi . 2013 . Do irrigation and predator control reduce the productivity of migratory ungulate herds? Ecology 94 : 1264 – 1270 . Wood , C. L. , K. D. Lafferty , G. Deleo , H. S. Young , P. J. Hudson , and A. M. Kuris . 2014 . Does biodiversity protect humans against infectious disease? Ecology 95 : 817 – 832 . Xavier , S. C. D. C. , A. L. R. Roque , V. D. S. Lima , K. J. L. Monteiro , J. C. R. Otaviano , L. F. C. F. D. Silva , and A. M. Jansen . 2012 . Lower richness of small wild mammal species and chagas disease risk . PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 6 : e1647 . Young , H. , R. H. Griffi n , C. L. Wood , and C. L. Nunn . 2013 . Does habitat disturbance increase infectious disease risk for primates? Ecology Letters 16 : 656 – 663 . Young , H. S. , R. Dirzo , K. M. Helgen , D. J. McCauley , S. A. Billeter , M. Y. Kosoy , L. M. Osikowicz , D. J. Salkeld , T. P. Young , and K. Dittmar . 2014 . Declines in large wildlife increase landscapelevel prevalence of rodentborne disease in Africa . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 111 : 7036 – 7041 .

This content is not available in your region!

Continue researching here.

Having issues? You can contact us here

Accelerating Research