By: Sarah E. Bowden (Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia) & John M. Drake (Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia) © 2013 Nature Education Depending ...

Parasites also influence biodiversity through the direct regulation of host populations. Even though parasites can cause disease, they rarely cause extinctions, because pathogen transmission is ...

These pathogens threaten biodiversity, ecosystems and human ... due to the risk of triggering a new pandemic. Human-to-human ...

“Conserving biodiversity and preventing pathogen spillover need to go hand in hand to prevent the next pandemic.” The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization ...