Infectious disease ecology and evolution in a changing world.
Infectious disease ecology and evolution in a changing world.
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在不断变化的世界中,传染病生态和进化。
DOI:
10.1098/rstb.2022.0002
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发表时间:
2023-03-27
影响因子:
6.3
通讯作者:
Wolinska, Justyna
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作者:
King, Kayla C.;Hall, Matthew D.;Wolinska, Justyna
Managing the consequences of climate change and human activity is one of the greatest challenges of the twenty-first century. Extreme weather events, such as heatwaves and droughts, are becoming more common and more severe [1], and urban and agricultural expansion is contributing to the loss of biodiversity and the degradation of ecosystems [2]. This new reality challenges the capacity of host species to persist and forces infectious diseases to rapidly evolve. Indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized how quickly infectious diseases can evolve and spread—with consequences for transmission, virulence and evasion of host defences [3]—and that disease dynamics will play out differently across regions of the globe [4, 5]. Addressing these challenges requires multi-faceted approaches that explore the effects of human-induced change on host–pathogen (including parasites) interactions across space and time (ie ecological and evolutionary timescales). Developing measures to enhance the resilience of natural and agricultural communities to these changes is also critical. Yet, these concepts have traditionally been tackled from disparate viewpoints with little empirical overlap. Ecological and epidemiological research, for example, has linked the spread of disease to environmental factors (eg [6–8]). But there is a pressing need for evolutionary research to capture how hosts and their pathogens may evolve under the sweeping environmental changes that populations now face. There is evidence that abiotic environmental factors can impact selection in host–pathogen interactions (eg [9]), but often empirical work examines these questions in abstract ways (hot versus cold, low versus high food). In turn, suggestions to use ecological and evolutionary principles in the management of agricultural pests and pathogens do not often consider the social and economic factors that underlie any long-term intervention [10]. This special issue aims to bring together research from different fields (ecological, evolutionary, epidemiological and applied) and approaches to better understand and address the impact of human-driven environmental change on infectious disease. It addresses a lack of comprehensive discussion on key issues that arise because different types of environmental change often form their own fields of research, rather than being studied as interconnected symptoms of human activity. To address this gap, the contributions herein focus on three key themes: climate change and infection outcomes; understanding host–pathogen interactions in dynamic environments; and outbreaks and pathogen evolution in human-altered ecosystems. By comparing different forms of global change, integrating across multiple fields, and identifying empirical and theoretical research gaps, this issue’s goal is to showcase and spark new thinking on infectious disease evolution in a rapidly changing world.
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DOI:
10.1098/rstb.2022.0012
发表时间:
2023-03-27
影响因子:
6.3
作者:
Geffersa, A. G.;Burdon, J. J.;Macfadyen, S.;Thrall, P. H.;Sprague, S. J.;Barrett, L. G.
通讯作者:
Barrett, L. G.
影响因子:
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影响因子:
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通讯作者:
Lafferty, Kevin D.
影响因子:
4.6
作者:
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