Does biodiversity protect humans against infectious disease? Comment.

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Ecology

• Publication date

  2016-02-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1890/15-354.1PMID 27145627
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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