Does biodiversity protect humans against infectious disease? Comment

Ecology

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 536-542

  Levi, Taal ^a   Massey, Aimee L ^a   Holt, Robert D ^b   Eesing, Felicia K ^c   Ostfeld, Richard S ^d   Peres, Carlos A ^e  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c BARD COLLEGE   (United States)

^d CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS;

EID: 84960915965     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/15-354.1     Document Type: Note

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