The dynamics of infectious diseases can be affected by genetic diversity within host
populations, species diversity within host communities, and diversity among communities. In …

Impacts of environmental changes on zoonotic disease risk are the subject of speculation,
but lack a coherent framework for understanding environmental drivers of pathogen …

Human‐induced landscape change associated with habitat loss and fragmentation places
wildlife populations at risk. One issue in these landscapes is a change in the prevalence of …

Hantaviruses comprise an emerging global threat for public health, affecting about 30 000
humans annually. Infection may lead to Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) in the …

Novel diseases are increasingly emerging into human populations through the complex—
and often, unseen—stepwise process of spillover from a combination of wildlife, livestock …

Rodents represent 42% of the world's mammalian biodiversity encompassing 2,277 species
populating every continent (except Antarctica) and are reservoir hosts for a wide diversity of …

Since the recognition of hantavirus as the agent responsible for haemorrhagic fever in
Eurasia in the 1970s and, 20 years later, the descovery of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome …

The Arctic, even more so than other parts of the world, has warmed substantially over the
past few decades. Temperature and humidity influence the rate of development, survival and …

As humans have come to dominate the earth, the ideal of studying and teaching ecology in
pristine ecosystems has become impossible to achieve. Our planet is now a mosaic of …

Our world is undergoing rapid planetary changes driven by human activities, often mediated
by economic incentives and resource management, affecting all life on Earth. Concurrently …