@article{fdi:010070252,
  title = {{D}eforestation-driven food-web collapse linked to emerging tropical infectious disease, {M}ycobacterium ulcerans},
  author = {{M}orris, {A}. {L}. and {G}u{\'e}gan, {J}ean-{F}ran{\c{c}}ois and {A}ndreou, {D}. and {M}arsollier, {L}. and {C}arolan, {K}. and {L}e {C}roller, {M}. and {S}anhueza, {D}. and {G}ozlan, {R}odolphe},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{G}eneralist microorganisms are the agents of many emerging infectious diseases ({EID}s), but their natural life cycles are difficult to predict due to the multiplicity of potential hosts and environmental reservoirs. {A}mong 250 known human {EID}s, many have been traced to tropical rain forests and specifically freshwater aquatic systems, which act as an interface between microbe-rich sediments or substrates and terrestrial habitats. {A}long with the rapid urbanization of developing countries, population encroachment, deforestation, and land-use modifications are expected to increase the risk of {EID} outbreaks. {W}e show that the freshwater food-web collapse driven by land-use change has a nonlinear effect on the abundance of preferential hosts of a generalist bacterial pathogen, {M}ycobacterium ulcerans. {T}his leads to an increase of the pathogen within systems at certain levels of environmental disturbance. {T}he complex link between aquatic, terrestrial, and {EID} processes highlights the potential importance of species community composition and structure and species life history traits in disease risk estimation and mapping. {M}echanisms such as the one shown here are also central in predicting how human-induced environmental change, for example, deforestation and changes in land use, may drive emergence.},
  keywords = {{GUYANE} {FRANCAISE}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{S}cience {A}dvances},
  volume = {2},
  numero = {12},
  pages = {e1600387 [7 p.]},
  ISSN = {2375-2548},
  year = {2016},
  DOI = {10.1126/sciadv.1600387},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010070252},
}