Rabies is a lethal zoonotic disease that is caused by lyssaviruses, most often rabies virus.
Despite control efforts, sporadic outbreaks in wildlife populations are largely unpredictable …

BACKGROUND Despite ongoing advances in biomedicine, infectious diseases remain a
major threat to human health, economic sustainability, and wildlife conservation. This is in …

Background Rabies is a notoriously underreported and neglected disease of low-income
countries. This study aims to estimate the public health and economic burden of rabies …

Understanding how landscape characteristics affect biodiversity patterns and ecological
processes at local and landscape scales is critical for mitigating effects of global …

Vultures provide critical ecosystem services, yet populations of many species have
collapsed worldwide. We present the first estimates of a 30‐year Pan‐African vulture …

Negative impacts from the presence of domestic animals pose particular issues for
biodiversity conservation as they are intimately tied to the economic, social and political …

Land-use intensification has led to a landscape mosaic that juxtaposes human-managed
and natural areas. In such human-dominated and heterogeneous landscapes, spillover …

The use of social and contact networks to answer basic and applied questions about
infectious disease transmission in wildlife and livestock is receiving increased attention …

Many invasive species that have been spread through the globalization of trade and travel
are pathogens. A paradigmatic case is the introduction of West Nile virus (WNV) into North …

We review our ecological understanding of wildlife infectious diseases from the individual
host to the ecosystem scale, highlighting where conceptual thinking lacks verification …