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Beyond Birds: Rethinking Bird-Centered Pathogen Models in Light of Insect Migration

2025-10-03

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Migration redistributes biomass, nutrients, and pathogens across ecosystems. For decades, migratory birds have been treated as the default long-distance pathogen vectors, shaping both conceptual frameworks and empirical models of disease ecology. Yet this bird-centric view creates a profound bias: it overlooks trillions of insects that migrate seasonally across continents, many of them efficient pathogen vectors....

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DOI: 10.22541/au.175952272.26757650/v1

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