Declining ecosystem health and the dilution effect

The “dilution effect” implies that where species vary in susceptibility to infection by a pathogen, higher diversity often leads to lower infection prevalence in hosts. For directly transmitted pathogens, non-host species may “dilute” infection directly (1) and indirectly (2). Competitors and predat...

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Autores principales: Khalil, Hussein, Ecke, Frauke, Evander, Magnus, Magnusson, Magnus, Hörnfeldt, Birger
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4976314/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27499001
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep31314

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4976314/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27499001
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep31314

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