A Candide response to Panglossian accusations by Randolph and Dobson: biodiversity buffers disease

Biodiversity decreases disease through predictable changes in host community competence

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Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

Pangloss revisited: a critique of the dilution effect and the biodiversity-buffers-disease paradigm

(2012) S. E. RANDOLPH et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Effects of Host Diversity on Infectious Disease

(2011) Richard S. Ostfeld et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Diversity, decoys and the dilution effect: how ecological communities affect disease risk

(2010) P. T. J. Johnson et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases

(2010) Felicia Keesing et al.   NATURE

Biodiversity Loss Affects Global Disease Ecology

(2009) Montira J. Pongsiri et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Hosts as ecological traps for the vector of Lyme disease

(2009) F. Keesing et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES