Four decades of data on rodent species composition and hantavirus prevalence across a changing urban–agricultural landscape demonstrate that long-term data are key for understanding links between biodiversity loss and disease dynamics
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Teitelbaum, C.S. Species diversity links land consolidation to rodent disease. Nat Ecol Evol 9, 17–18 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02584-5
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