Lose biodiversity, gain disease

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 28, 2015, Pages 8523-8524

  McCallum, Hamish Ian ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOSYSTEM; EFFECT SIZE; HABITAT; HUMAN; INFECTION; LYME DISEASE; MALARIA; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; PARASITIC DISEASES;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; HUMANS; PARASITIC DISEASES;

EID: 84937150320     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1510607112     Document Type: Note

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