ArticleScience advances2023
Human disturbance increases coronavirus prevalence in bats.
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- Coronavirus Detection in Bats Captured on the Deforestation Arc of Mato Grosso, Brazil.Zoonoses and public health · 2026Article
- Viral emergence and pandemic preparedness in a One Health framework.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2026Review
- Virus-host associations of bat coronaviruses along a land-use gradient in the Yucatán Peninsula, México.Virus evolution · 2026Article
- Genetic diversity of alpha and betacoronaviruses in cave and temple-roosting bats in Vientiane Province, Lao PDR.PloS one · 2026Article
- Circulation characteristics of bat coronaviruses linked to bat ecological factors in Korea, 2021-2022.Virulence · 2025Article
- Virome and Microbiome of Florida Bats Illuminate Viral Co-Infections, Dietary Viral Signals, and Gut Microbiome Shifts.Microorganisms · 2025Article
- A minimum data standard for wildlife disease research and surveillance.Scientific data · 2025Article
- Hybrid genome assembly of the widespread bat Rhinolophus lepidus provides insights into susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection and climate change threat.DNA research : an international journal for rapid publication of reports on genes and genomes · 2025Article
- Pathogens and planetary change.Nature reviews. Biodiversity · 2025Article
- The links between dietary diversity and RNA virus diversity harbored by the great evening bat (Ia io).Microbiome · 2024Article
- Using drivers and transmission pathways to identify SARS-like coronavirus spillover risk hotspots.Nature communications · 2023Article
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Abstract
Human land modification is a known driver of animal-to-human transmission of infectious agents (zoonotic spillover). Infection prevalence in the reservoir is a key predictor of spillover, but landscape-level associations between the intensity of land modification and infection rates in wildlife remain largely untested. Bat-borne coronaviruses have caused three major disease outbreaks in humans: severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Middle East respiratory syndrome, and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). We statistically link high-resolution land modification data with bat coronavirus surveillance records and show that coronavirus prevalence significantly increases with the intensity of human impact across all climates and levels of background biodiversity. The most significant contributors to the overall human impact are agriculture, deforestation, and mining. Regions of high predicted bat coronavirus prevalence coincide with global disease hotspots, suggesting that infection prevalence in wildlife may be an important factor underlying links between human land modification and zoonotic disease emergence.
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