SynthesisEcoHealth2014
Responses of small mammals to habitat fragmentation: epidemiological considerations for rodent-borne hantaviruses in the Americas.
Synthesis in EcoHealth, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 53 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Unraveling the Mechanistic Links Between Species Diversity and Infection Risk From Zoonotic Pathogens With Direct Transmission Among Reservoir Hosts: Rodent-Orthohantavirus Systems as Models.Ecology and evolution · 2025Review
- Effects of Body Condition and Ectoparasitism on Host-Pathogen Interactions of Heteromyid Rodents.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Immunogenetic-pathogen networks shrink in Tome's spiny rat, a generalist rodent inhabiting disturbed landscapes.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Association between anthropization and rodent reservoirs of zoonotic pathogens in Northwestern Mexico.PloS one · 2024Article
- Distribution and prevalence of Sin Nombre hantavirus in rodent species in eastern New Mexico.PloS one · 2024Article
- Deciphering the Hantavirus Host Range Combining Virology and Species Distribution Models with an Emphasis on the Yellow Pygmy Rice Rat (Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2023Article
- Review
- Land-use change and rodent-borne diseases: hazards on the shared socioeconomic pathways.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
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- Landscape Seroprevalence of Three Hemorrhagic Disease-Causing Viruses in a Wild Cervid.EcoHealth · 2021Article
- Population characteristics ofTherya · 2021Article
- Population connectivity in voles (Microtus sp.) as a gauge for tall grass prairie restoration in midwestern North America.PloS one · 2021Article
- Transdisciplinary Research Priorities for Human and Planetary Health in the Context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Review
- Exotic Pinus radiata Plantations do not Increase Andes Hantavirus Prevalence in Rodents.EcoHealth · 2019Article
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- Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Hantavirus Cardiopulmonary Syndrome Transmission Risk in Brazil.Viruses · 2019Article
- Species Identity Supersedes the Dilution Effect Concerning Hantavirus Prevalence at Sites across Texas and México.ILAR journal · 2017Article
- Does the impact of biodiversity differ between emerging and endemic pathogens? The need to separate the concepts of hazard and risk.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Review
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Authors and funding
3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Rodent-borne hantaviruses are a group of zoonotic agents that cause hemorrhagic fever in humans. The transmission of hantaviruses among rodent hosts may be higher with the increase of reservoir host abundance in a given area (density-dependent transmission) and with the decrease of small mammal diversity (dilution effect phenomenon). These population and community parameters may be modified by habitat fragmentation; however, studies that focus on fragmentation and its effect on hantavirus infection risk are scarce. To further understanding of this issue, we assessed some population and community responses of rodents that may increase the risk for hantavirus transmission among wildlife hosts in the Americas. We conducted a meta-analysis of published studies to assess the responses of small mammals to fragmentation of native habitats, relative to patch size. Our analyses included five countries and 14 case studies for abundance of reservoir hosts (8 species) and 15 case studies for species richness. We found that a reduction of patch area due to habitat fragmentation is associated with increased reservoir host abundances and decreased small mammal richness, which is mainly due to the loss of non-host small mammals. According to these results, habitat fragmentation in the Americas should be considered as an epidemiological risk factor for hantavirus transmission to humans. These findings are important to assess potential risk of infection when fragmentation of native habitats occurs.
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