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Declines in large wildlife increase landscape-level prevalence of rodent-borne disease in Africa
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Significance: Understanding the effects of biodiversity loss on zoonotic disease is of pressing importance to both conservation science and public health. This paper provides experimental evidence of increased landscape-level disease risk following declines in large wildlife, using the case study of the rodent-borne zoonosis, bartonellosis, in East Africa. This pattern is driven not by changes in community composition or diversity of hosts, as frequently proposed in other systems, but by increases in abundance of susceptible hosts following large mammal declines. Given that rodent increases following large wildlife declines appear to be a widespread pattern, we suggest this relationship is likely to be general.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Young, H. S., Dirzo, R., Helgen, K. M., McCauley, D. J., Billeter, S. A., Kosoy, M. Y., Osikowicz, L. M., Salkeld, D. J., Young, T. P., & Dittmar, K.
- Affiliations
- Smithsonian Institution (US)
- Department of Biology and
- University of California, Santa Barbara (US)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)
- Colorado State University (US)
- University of California, Davis (US)
- University at Buffalo, State University of New York (US)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2014-04-28
- Volume
- 111
- Issue
- 19
- Pages
- 7036-7041
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC4024866
- OpenAlex
- W2154261096
- Cited by
- 146
- References
- 69
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 20 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 15 · 2016: 15 · 2015: 14 · 2014: 5
- FWCI
- 11.89
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (97-07477, 0316402, 0816453)
- Smithsonian Institution
- National Geographic Society
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (98210‐0‐G563)
- Division of Environmental Biology (09-09670)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › Bartonella species infections research
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Keywords
- defaunation, rodent-borne zoonoses, Bartonella, bartonellosis, rodent density, savanna ecosystems, host regulation, disease transmission risk, East Africa
- MeSH terms
- Africa, Eastern, Animals, Animals, Wild, Bartonella Infections, Humans, Kenya, Lice Infestations, Risk Factors, Rodent Diseases, Rodentia, Zoonoses, Prevalence, Ecosystem, Biodiversity, Xenopsylla, Flea Infestations
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