ArticleNature reviews. Biodiversity2025
Pathogens and planetary change.
Article in Nature reviews. Biodiversity, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
32 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Global approaches to infectious disease surveillance and modeling.Nature medicine · 2026Review
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- Zoonoethics and Inclusive One Health Governance for H5N1 Panzootic: From Animal Culling to Co-responsibility.Public health ethics · 2026Article
- Mapping global avian influenza risk patterns through waterbird activity entropy.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Soil antibiotic resistome in farmland exhibits higher diversity and horizontal transfer potential than adjacent pastureland in agro-pastoral ecotone.Environmental microbiome · 2026Article
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- Occurrence of brachylaimid trematodes, alive and shell-trapped, in sympatric species of terrestrial gastropods in France.Parasite (Paris, France) · 2026Article
- Use of mental models to identify one health priorities for wildlife health management in California.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025Article
- Effects of Future Climate Extreme Heat Events and Land Use Changes on Land Vertebrates.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Microbiomes of frozen blood plasma samples reveal potential pathogens in wild birds and rodents.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025Article
- Changes in biodiversity drive trypanosome infections of wildlife in Panama.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Emerging infectious diseases, biodiversity loss, and anthropogenic environmental change are interconnected crises with massive social and ecological costs. In this Review, we discuss how pathogens and parasites are responding to global change, and the implications for pandemic prevention and biodiversity conservation. Ecological and evolutionary principles help to explain why both pandemics and wildlife die-offs are becoming more common; why land-use change and biodiversity loss are often followed by an increase in zoonotic and vector-borne diseases; and why some species, such as bats, host so many emerging pathogens. To prevent the next pandemic, scientists should focus on monitoring and limiting the spread of a handful of high-risk viruses, especially at key interfaces such as farms and live-animal markets. But to address the much broader set of infectious disease risks associated with the Anthropocene, decision-makers will need to develop comprehensive strategies that include pathogen surveillance across species and ecosystems; conservation-based interventions to reduce human-animal contact and protect wildlife health; health system strengthening; and global improvements in epidemic preparedness and response. Scientists can contribute to these efforts by filling global gaps in disease data, and by expanding the evidence base for disease-driver relationships and ecological interventions.
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