Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases

Nature

Volumn 468, Issue 7324, 2010, Pages 647-652

  Keesing, Felicia ^a   Belden, Lisa K ^b   Daszak, Peter ^c   Dobson, Andrew ^d   Harvell, C Drew ^e   Holt, Robert D ^f   Hudson, Peter ^g   Jolles, Anna ^h   Jones, Kate E ⁱ   Mitchell, Charles E ^j   Myers, Samuel S ^k   Bogich, Tiffany ^c   Ostfeld, Richard S ^l  

^a BARD COLLEGE   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^g PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^k HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^l CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; EMERGENCE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PATHOGENICITY; POPULATION DECLINE;

BIODIVERSITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOSYSTEM; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; HANTAVIRUS; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 78649856647     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09575     Document Type: Review

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