Biodiversity Loss Affects Global Disease Ecology

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Exploring connections among nature, biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human health and well-being: Opportunities to enhance health and biodiversity conservation ☆ (2015, background): “Recent investigations, particularly in terrestrial systems, suggest that transmission rates of certain pathogens may decrease when the diversity, not just the density, of available hosts (i.e., host biodiversity) increases (Pongsiri et al., 2009).”
Effects of Host Diversity on Infectious Disease (2012, result): “Although some support exists for the second and third conditions ( Johnson & Thieltges 2010, Keesing et al. 2010, Ostfeld & Keesing 2000, Pongsiri et al. 2009), their generality remains to be evaluated comprehensively.”
Global expansion and redistribution of Aedes-borne virus transmission risk with climate change (2017, background): “331 These global disease futures are inherently stochastic, and the degree to which our 332 models correspond to reality depends not only on uncertainty about climate change, but also on 333 uncertainty about the biotic homogenization process for disease [48].”