Building an integrated infrastructure for exploring biodiversity: field collections and archives of mammals and parasites.

ABSTRACT: Museum specimens play an increasingly important role in predicting the outcomes and revealing the consequences of anthropogenically driven disruption of the biosphere. As ecological communities respond to ongoing environmental change, host-parasite interactions are also altered. This shifting landscape of host-parasite associations creates opportunities for colonization of different hosts and emergence of new pathogens, with implications for wildlife conservation and management, public health, and other societal concerns. Integrated archives that document and preserve mammal specimens along with their communities of associated parasites and ancillary data provide a powerful resource for investigating, anticipating, and mitigating the epidemiological, ecological, and evolutionary impacts of

SUBMITTER: Galbreath KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6479512 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature