Hantaviruses are enzootic viruses that maintain persistent infections in their rodent hosts
without apparent disease symptoms. The spillover of these viruses to humans can lead to …

Abstract The World Health Organisation estimates that the warming and precipitation trends
due to anthropogenic climate change of the past 30 years already claim over 150,000 lives …

Parasites and infectious diseases are everywhere and represent some of the most potent
forces shaping the natural world. They affect almost every aspect imaginable in the life of …

Infectious diseases can cause rapid population declines or species extinctions. Many
pathogens of terrestrial and marine taxa are sensitive to temperature, rainfall, and humidity …

Abstract Until recently, continuous monitoring of global vegetation productivity has not been
possible because of technological limitations. This article introduces a new satellite-driven …

Rodents are the most abundant and diversified order of living mammals in the world.
Already since the Middle Ages we know that they can contribute to human disease, as black …

SUMMARY Bats (order Chiroptera, suborders Megachiroptera [“flying foxes”] and
Microchiroptera) are abundant, diverse, and geographically widespread. These mammals …

Authoritative and comprehensive, this is the leading text and professional resource on using
geographic information systems (GIS) to analyze and address public health problems. Basic …

Current evidence suggests that inter-annual and inter-decadal climate variability have a
direct influence on the epidemiology of vector-borne diseases. This evidence has been …

Planning and decision-making can be improved by access to reliable forecasts of ecosystem
state, ecosystem services, and natural capital. Availability of new data sets, together with …