Does biodiversity protect humans against infectious disease?

Impact of forest size on parasite biodiversity: implications for conservation of hosts and parasites

(2013) Sarah E. Bush et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Does habitat disturbance increase infectious disease risk for primates?

(2013) Hillary Young et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A meta-analysis suggesting that the relationship between biodiversity and risk of zoonotic pathogen transmission is idiosyncratic

(2013) Daniel J Salkeld et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The Global Burden of Human Parasites: Who and Where are They? How are They Transmitted?

(2013) Armand M. Kuris   JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY

Biodiversity decreases disease through predictable changes in host community competence

(2013) Pieter T. J. Johnson et al.   NATURE

Conservation Efforts May Increase Malaria Burden in the Brazilian Amazon

(2013) Denis Valle et al.   PLoS One

Coextinction and Persistence of Dependent Species in a Changing World

(2012) Robert K. Colwell et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Species diversity reduces parasite infection through cross-generational effects on host abundance

(2012) Pieter T. J. Johnson et al.   ECOLOGY

Living fast and dying of infection: host life history drives interspecific variation in infection and disease risk

(2012) Pieter T. J. Johnson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

Linking community and disease ecology: the impact of biodiversity on pathogen transmission

(2012) B. Roche et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Biodiversity loss decreases parasite diversity: theory and patterns

(2012) K. D. Lafferty   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A framework for the study of zoonotic disease emergence and its drivers: spillover of bat pathogens as a case study

(2012) J. L. N. Wood et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Human viruses: discovery and emergence

(2012) M. Woolhouse et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Biodiversity and disease: a synthesis of ecological perspectives on Lyme disease transmission

(2012) Chelsea L. Wood et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Effects of Host Diversity on Infectious Disease

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

Impact of the experimental removal of lizards on Lyme disease risk

(2011) A. Swei et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Globalization, Land Use, and the Invasion of West Nile Virus

(2011) A. M. Kilpatrick   SCIENCE

Stage structure alters how complexity affects stability of ecological networks

(2010) V. H. W. Rudolf et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

Testing Mechanisms of the Dilution Effect: Deer Mice Encounter Rates, Sin Nombre Virus Prevalence and Species Diversity

(2009) Christine A. Clay et al.   EcoHealth

Experimental Evidence for Reduced Rodent Diversity Causing Increased Hantavirus Prevalence

(2009) Gerardo Suzán et al.   PLoS One

Sin Nombre Virus and Rodent Species Diversity: A Test of the Dilution and Amplification Hypotheses

(2009) Christine A. Clay et al.   PLoS One

The sixth mass coextinction: are most endangered species parasites and mutualists?

(2009) R. R. Dunn et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Epidemic Dynamics at the Human-Animal Interface

(2009) J. O. Lloyd-Smith et al.   SCIENCE

Increased Avian Diversity Is Associated with Lower Incidence of Human West Nile Infection: Observation of the Dilution Effect

(2008) John P. Swaddle et al.   PLoS One

Zooprophylaxis: Impact of Breeding Rabbits Around Houses on Reducing the Indoor Abundance of Phlebotomus papatasi

(2008) Ifhem Chelbi et al.   VECTOR-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES