Climate and land-use change homogenise terrestrial biodiversity, with consequences for ecosystem functioning and human well-being

T Newbold, GL Adams… - Emerging Topics in …, 2019 - portlandpress.com
Biodiversity continues to decline under the effect of multiple human pressures. We give a
brief overview of the main pressures on biodiversity, before focusing on the two that have a …

Spread of SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus likely to be constrained by climate

MB Araujo, B Naimi - MedRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
As new cases of SARS CoV-2 (aka 2019-nCoV) Coronavirus are confirmed throughout the
world and millions of people are being put into quarantine, few doubt the virus will reach …

Accelerating invasion potential of disease vector Aedes aegypti under climate change

T Iwamura, A Guzman-Holst, KA Murray - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Vector-borne diseases remain a major contributor to the global burden of disease, while
climate change is expected to exacerbate their risk. Characterising vector development rate …

Ecology, evolution, and epidemiology of zoonotic and vector-borne infectious diseases in French Guiana: Transdisciplinarity does matter to tackle new emerging …

B de Thoisy, O Duron, L Epelboin, L Musset… - Infection, Genetics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract French Guiana is a European ultraperipheric region located on the northern Atlantic
coast of South America. It constitutes an important forested region for biological conservation …

Agricultural land-uses consistently exacerbate infectious disease risks in Southeast Asia

HA Shah, P Huxley, J Elmes, KA Murray - Nature Communications, 2019 - nature.com
Agriculture has been implicated as a potential driver of human infectious diseases.
However, the generality of disease-agriculture relationships has not been systematically …

Global expansion of COVID-19 pandemic is driven by population size and airport connections

MTP Coelho, JFM Rodrigues, AM Medina, P Scalco… - PeerJ, 2020 - peerj.com
The pandemic state of COVID-19 caused by the SARS CoV-2 put the world in quarantine,
led to hundreds of thousands of deaths and is causing an unprecedented economic crisis …

Forests and emerging infectious diseases: unleashing the beast within

JF Guégan, A Ayouba, J Cappelle… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Deforestation and associated changing landscapes are major components of environmental
changes, with important implications for ecosystem functioning and biodiversity …

Predicting the spatio-temporal spread of West Nile virus in Europe

JM García-Carrasco, AR Muñoz, J Olivero… - PLoS neglected …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
West Nile virus is a widely spread arthropod-born virus, which has mosquitoes as vectors
and birds as reservoirs. Humans, as dead-end hosts of the virus, may suffer West Nile Fever …

Multiple drivers of the COVID-19 spread: The roles of climate, international mobility, and region-specific conditions

Y Kubota, T Shiono, B Kusumoto, J Fu**uma - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Following its initial appearance in December 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
quickly spread around the globe. Here, we evaluated the role of climate (temperature and …

[HTML][HTML] Seasonal changes dominate long-term variability of the urban air microbiome across space and time

A Núñez, AM García, DA Moreno, R Guantes - Environment International, 2021 - Elsevier
Compared to soil or aquatic ecosystems, the atmosphere is still an underexplored
environment for microbial diversity. In this study, we surveyed the composition, variability …