For decades, people have reduced the transmission of pathogens by adding low‐quality
hosts to managed environments like agricultural fields. More recently, there has been …

Land use change—for example, the conversion of natural habitats to agricultural or urban
ecosystems—is widely recognized to influence the risk and emergence of zoonotic disease …

The majority of human emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic, with viruses that originate
in wild mammals of particular concern (for example, HIV, Ebola and SARS),,. Understanding …

Because most emerging human pathogens originate in mammals, many studies aim to
identify host traits that determine the risk of sourcing zoonotic outbreaks. Studies regularly …

Introduction microorganisms and macrohistory one of the chief blessings of living in the
modern world is supposed to be that the risk of dying from an infectious disease has become …

Body size influences many traits including those that affect host competence, the propensity
to cause new infections. Here, we employ a new framework to reveal that, for at least two …

Many studies have suggested that ecosystem conservation protects human and wildlife
populations against infectious disease. We tested this hypothesis using data on primates …

Surveillance of pathogen richness in wildlife is needed to identify host species with a high
risk of zoonotic disease spillover. While several predictors of pathogen richness in wildlife …

Brain size of vertebrates has long been recognized to evolve in close association with basic
life‐history traits, including lifespan. According to the cognitive buffer hypothesis, large …

Identifying the factors shaping variation in parasite diversity among host species is crucial to
understand wildlife diseases. Although micro‐and macroparasites may exert different …