Pathogen spillover driven by rapid changes in bat ecology
Griffith University · UNSW Sydney · +10 more institutions
Abstract
Abstract During recent decades, pathogens that originated in bats have become an increasing public health concern. A major challenge is to identify how those pathogens spill over into human populations to generate a pandemic threat 1 . Many correlational studies associate spillover with changes in land use or other anthropogenic stressors 2,3 , although the mechanisms underlying the observed correlations have not been identified 4 . One limitation is the lack of spatially and temporally explicit data on multiple spillovers, and on the connections among spillovers, reservoir host ecology and behaviour and viral dynamics. We present 25 years of data on land-use change, bat behaviour and spillover of Hendra virus…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 48.93
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 47
Authors
7- PEPeggy EbyCorresponding
Griffith University, UNSW Sydney, Center for Large Landscape Conservation, Environmental Earth Sciences
- AJAlison J. Peel
Griffith University
- AHAndrew Hoegh
Montana State University
- WMWyatt Madden
Emory University, Montana State University
- JGJ Giles
Johns Hopkins University, University of Washington, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Topics & keywords
- Spillover effect
- Ecology
- Climate change
- Biology
- Ecosystem
- Habitat destruction
- Land use
- Habitat