Beyond biodiversity loss defaunation: cascades effects in zoonotic disease ecology
Felipe Aramburo Jaramillo, Juan Manuel Cordovez, Carolina Bello, Mauricio Santos‐Vega
The paper proposes a defaunation-cascade framework to link human pressure to zoonotic disease dynamics, showing differential associations between pathogen types and environmental factors.
bioRxiv · Jul 22, 2026 · PreprintEcology