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While some studies report that deforestation increases malaria risk, others claim the opposite. Assessing malaria risk requires examination of dynamic processes among three main components: (i) the environment (i.e. LULC and landscape transformations), (ii) vector biology (e.g. mosquito species distributions, vector activity and life cycle, plasmodium infection rates), and (iii) human populations (e.g. forest-related activity, host susceptibility, movement patterns). The authors of this journal paper conduct a systematic literature review on malaria risk and deforestation in the Amazon focusing on these three components. [Source: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | Biological Sciences]
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