Social and political policy, human activities, and environmental change affect the ways in
which microbial communities assemble and interact with people. These factors determine …

Evidence suggests that emerging infectious diseases, such as COVID-19, originate from
wildlife species, and that land-use change is an important pathway for pathogen …

The Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) is one the global biodiversity hotspots. However, the
diversity has been seriously threatened due to environmental degradation and …

Abstract Background In the Greater Mekong Subregion, case–control studies and national-
level analyses have shown an association between malaria transmission and forest …

The effects of habitat disturbance on parasites and microbes is poorly understood despite
implications for host health and conservation. In this thesis I identify landscape properties …

Global environmental change is increasingly recognized to influence risk of numerous
zoonotic (animal-borne) infectious diseases. There is a fast-growing body of research into …