Effects of climate change and human activities on vector-borne diseases

WM de Souza, SC Weaver - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2024 - nature.com
Vector-borne diseases are transmitted by haematophagous arthropods (for example,
mosquitoes, ticks and sandflies) to humans and wild and domestic animals, with the largest …

Ecological countermeasures to prevent pathogen spillover and subsequent pandemics

RK Plowright, AN Ahmed, T Coulson… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Substantial global attention is focused on how to reduce the risk of future pandemics.
Reducing this risk requires investment in prevention, preparedness, and response. Although …

Pathogen spillover driven by rapid changes in bat ecology

P Eby, AJ Peel, A Hoegh, W Madden, JR Giles… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
During recent decades, pathogens that originated in bats have become an increasing public
health concern. A major challenge is to identify how those pathogens spill over into human …

Ecology, evolution and spillover of coronaviruses from bats

M Ruiz-Aravena, C McKee, A Gamble, T Lunn… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
In the past two decades, three coronaviruses with ancestral origins in bats have emerged
and caused widespread outbreaks in humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome …

Land use and ecological change: A 12,000-year history

EC Ellis - Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Human use of land has been transforming Earth's ecology for millennia. From hunting and
foraging to burning the land to farming to industrial agriculture, increasingly intensive human …

A framework to guide planetary health education

CAF Guzmán, AA Aguirre, B Astle, E Barros… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2021 - thelancet.com
People around the world are increasingly facing the pressing challenges of today's
interconnected environmental, social, and health crises. The COVID-19 pandemic has been …

[HTML][HTML] Land use transitions: Progress, challenges and prospects

H Long, Y Zhang, L Ma, S Tu - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
The study of land use transition has generally become an important breakthrough point to
deeply understand the human-land interaction and reveal major socio-economic …

[HTML][HTML] Land use optimization of rural production–living–ecological space at different scales based on the BP–ANN and CLUE–S models

G Liao, P He, X Gao, Z Lin, C Huang, W Zhou… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Rural production–living–ecological (PLE) space is the essential carrier of China's rural land
resource planning and management. However, the pattern identification, optimal prediction …

Dilution effects in disease ecology

F Keesing, RS Ostfeld - Ecology Letters, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
For decades, people have reduced the transmission of pathogens by adding low‐quality
hosts to managed environments like agricultural fields. More recently, there has been …

Interventions to reduce risk for pathogen spillover and early disease spread to prevent outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics

NM Vora, L Hannah, C Walzer, MM Vale… - Emerging infectious …, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The pathogens that cause most emerging infectious diseases in humans originate in
animals, particularly wildlife, and then spill over into humans. The accelerating frequency …