ReviewThe Lancet. Planetary health2021
The COVID-19 pandemic is intricately linked to biodiversity loss and ecosystem health.
Review in The Lancet. Planetary health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.
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- Transgression of planetary boundaries and the effects on child health through an infectious diseases lens.Current opinion in pediatrics · 2025Review
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- Landscape and Socioeconomic Factors Determine Malaria Incidence in Tropical Forest Countries.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Potential Fungal Zoonotic Pathogens in Cetaceans: An Emerging Concern.Microorganisms · 2024Review
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- A scoping review on the association between early childhood caries and life on land: The Sustainable Development Goal 15.PloS one · 2024Article
- Environmental Change, Changing Biodiversity, and Infections-Lessons for Kidney Health Community.Kidney international reports · 2023Review
- The effect of COVID-19 confinement on the activity behaviour of red deer.Global ecology and conservation · 2023Article
- Role of Spillover and Spillback in SARS-CoV-2 Transmission and the Importance of One Health in Understanding the Dynamics of the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2023Review
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Abstract
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, caused by zoonotic SARS-CoV-2, has important links to biodiversity loss and ecosystem health. These links range from anthropogenic activities driving zoonotic disease emergence and extend to the pandemic affecting biodiversity conservation, environmental policy, ecosystem services, and multiple conservation facets. Crucially, such effects can exacerbate the initial drivers, resulting in feedback loops that are likely to promote future zoonotic disease outbreaks. We explore these feedback loops and relationships, highlighting known and potential zoonotic disease emergence drivers (eg, land-use change, intensive livestock production, wildlife trade, and climate change), and discuss direct and indirect effects of the ongoing pandemic on biodiversity loss and ecosystem health. We stress that responses to COVID-19 must include actions aimed at safeguarding biodiversity and ecosystems, in order to avoid future emergence of zoonoses and prevent their wide-ranging effects on human health, economies, and society. Such responses would benefit from adopting a One Health approach, enhancing cross-sector, transboundary communication, as well as from collaboration among multiple actors, promoting planetary and human health.
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