How does the resilience concept of nested relationships (panarchy) contribute to
sustainability science and policy? Resilience at a particular level of organization, the …

Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) H5N1 continues to impact on smallholder
livelihoods, to constrain development of the poultry production sector, and to cause …

A revolutionary book that presents analytical tools for understanding why a particular
disease is transmitted within a specific geographic area. A. Townsend Peterson, one of the …

Global change, which refers to large-scale changes in the earth system and human society,
has been changing the outbreak and transmission mode of many infectious diseases …

A large number of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 outbreaks in poultry and
wild birds have been reported in Europe since 2005. Distinct spatial patterns in poultry and …

Background Large-scale outbreaks of hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) have occurred
frequently and caused neurological sequelae in mainland China since 2008. Prediction of …

Several vaccines have been developed against highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI),
mostly inactivated whole‐virus vaccines for chickens. In the EU, one vaccine is authorised in …

Background Next generation sequencing technologies allow to obtain at low cost the
genomic sequence information that currently lacks for most economically and ecologically …

Animals respond to their environment at multiple spatial scales that each require different
conservation measures. Waterbirds are key bio-indicators for globally threatened wetland …

Species functional traits can influence pathogen transmission processes, and consequently
affect species' host status, pathogen diversity, and community‐level infection risk. We here …