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Is biodiversity bad for your health?
2017-03-01
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Abstract Natural ecosystems provide services that support human well‐being, but ecosystems may also contain elements that can endanger humans. Some researchers have argued that ecosystems that support high vertebrate diversity pose a danger to human health because they are likely to support a high diversity of zoonotic pathogens, leading to the emergence of infectious diseases. We evaluated the evidence for the th...
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- d3b08dab-9e8b-5c7b-ac10-21d181da5b9a
- DOI
- 10.1002/ecs2.1676