Biodiversity loss, emerging pathogens and human health risks

Abstract Outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases are occurring with increasing frequency and consequences, including wildlife diseases and zoonoses. Those have potentially long-lasting effects on human and wildlife populations, with inevitable direct and indirect effects on ecosystems. The intensifying emergence of infectious pathogens has many underlying reasons, all driven by the growing anthropogenic impact on nature. Intensifying pathogen emergence can be attributed to climate change, biodiversity loss, habitat degradation, and an increasing rate of wildlife–human contacts. All of these are caused by synergies between persisting intense poverty and a growing human population. Improved global management of the human-driven biological degradation and international dispersal processes that exacerbate those pandemic threats are now long overdue. It is vital that we act decisively in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis to radically change how we collectively manage the planet as a whole..

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:29

Enthalten in:

Biodiversity and conservation - 29(2020), 11-12 vom: 13. Aug., Seite 3095-3102

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Schmeller, Dirk S. [VerfasserIn]
Courchamp, Franck [VerfasserIn]
Killeen, Gerry [VerfasserIn]

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42.90$jÖkologie: Allgemeines

43.31$jNaturschutz

Themen:

Covid-19
Disease pyramid
Ecosystem health
Pandemics
Zoonoses

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© Springer Nature B.V. 2020

doi:

10.1007/s10531-020-02021-6

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OLC2119487898

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