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TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
Volume 28, Issue 4, Pages 239-247Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2012.10.011
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- National Science Foundation
- Alyce B. and Henry J. Ramey, Jr. Stanford Graduate Fellowship
- Directorate For Geosciences [GRANTS:14019729] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Division Of Ocean Sciences [1115965] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Ocean Sciences [GRANTS:14019729] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Recent reviews have argued that disease control is among the ecosystem services yielded by biodiversity. Lyme disease (LD) is commonly cited as the best example of the 'diluting' effect of biodiversity on disease transmission, but many studies document the opposite relationship, showing that human ID risk can increase with forestation. Here, we unify these divergent perspectives and find strong evidence for a positive link between biodiversity and ID at broad spatial scales (urban to suburban to rural) and equivocal evidence for a negative link between biodiversity and LD at varying levels of biodiversity within forests. This finding suggests that, across zoonotic disease agents, the biodiversity-disease relationship is scale dependent and complex.
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