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SUBMITTER: Searle CL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3182747 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Searle Catherine L CL Biga Lindsay M LM Spatafora Joseph W JW Blaustein Andrew R AR
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20110919 39
Global declines in biodiversity are altering disease dynamics in complex and multifaceted ways. Changes in biodiversity can have several outcomes on disease risk, including dilution and amplification effects, both of which can have a profound influence on the effects of disease in a community. The dilution effect occurs when biodiversity and disease risk are inversely related, whereas the amplification effect is a positive relationship between biodiversity and disease risk. We tested these effec ...[more]