COSEE Ocean Systems: News
Ecology of Infectious Diseases
Description: Virtually all the world's terrestrial and aquatic communities have undergone dramatic changes in biodiversity due primarily to habitat transformations such as deforestation and agricultural intensification, invasions of exotic species, chemical contamination and climate-change events. The coincidence of broad-scale environmental changes with the emergence of infectious diseases may point to underlying and predictable ecological relationships. [Source: National Science Foundation]
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/ecoinf/inf.jsp
Availability: Full Text
Source: National Science Foundation
Publish Date: 5/6/2011
Reading Level: Basic
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