Infectious Disease
With increasing human impacts and demands on our planet, infectious diseases not only pose ever greater risks to humans but also increasingly impact managed and natural ecosystems.
With increasing human impacts and demands on our planet, infectious diseases not only pose ever greater risks to humans but also increasingly impact managed and natural ecosystems. Although the ways in which infectious diseases affect biodiversity, agriculture, and human populations are diverse and complex, understanding the emergence, spread, and virulence of pathogens requires an ecological and evolutionary perspective, one focused on how host and pathogens interact and co-evolve.