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Large-scale disease patterns explained by climatic seasonality and host traits.
Oecologia - 1 Dec 2020
Filion Antoine, Eriksson Alan, Jorge Fátima, Niebuhr Chris N, Poulin Robert
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Understanding factors affecting the distribution of vector-borne diseases in space and across species is of prime importance to conservation ecologists. Identifying the underlying patterns of disease requires a perspective encompassing large spatial scales. However, few studies have investigated disease ecology from a macroecological perspective. Hence, we use a global disease database to uncover worldwide...
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