Biodiversity decreases disease through predictable changes in host community competence

Nature

Volumn 494, Issue 7436, 2013, Pages 230-233

  Johnson, Pieter T J ^a   Preston, Daniel L ^a   Hoverman, Jason T ^b   Richgels, Katherine L D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; BIODIVERSITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FLATWORM; HABITAT CONSERVATION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AMPHIBIAN DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HOST; MESOCOSM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBEIROIA ONDATRAE; TREMATODE; VIRULENCE; WETLAND;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CALIFORNIA; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TREMATODA; TREMATODE INFECTIONS; WETLANDS;

EID: 84873696547     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11883     Document Type: Article

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