Can Protected Areas Mitigate Lyme Disease Risk in Fennoscandia?

This Forum article synthesizes the current evidence on the links between predator-prey interactions, protected areas and spatial variations in Lyme disease risk in Fennoscandia. I suggest key research directions to better understand the role of protected areas in promoting the persistence of diverse...

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Published in:EcoHealth
Main Author: Terraube, Julien
Other Authors: Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS), Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Research Programme, Global Change and Conservation Lab
Format: Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Springer 2019
Subjects:
BORRELIOSIS
Boreal ecosystems
COMMUNITY
Conservation
DEER
DIVERSITY
FINLAND
Global change
HEALTH
IXODES-RICINUS
POPULATION-CYCLES
PREDATORS
TOP-DOWN
Tick-borne disease
Top predator
Trophic cascades
1181 Ecology
evolutionary biology
Fennoscandia
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10138/305171
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Summary:This Forum article synthesizes the current evidence on the links between predator-prey interactions, protected areas and spatial variations in Lyme disease risk in Fennoscandia. I suggest key research directions to better understand the role of protected areas in promoting the persistence of diverse predator guilds. Conserving predators could help reducing host populations and Lyme disease risk in northern Europe. There is an urgent need to find possible win-win solutions for biodiversity conservation and human health in ecosystems facing rapid global environmental change. Non peer reviewed

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