Long-Tailed Macaque Response to Deforestation in a Plasmodium knowlesi-Endemic Area.

ABSTRACT: Land-use changes can impact infectious disease transmission by increasing spatial overlap between people and wildlife disease reservoirs. In Malaysian Borneo, increases in human infections by the zoonotic malaria Plasmodium knowlesi are hypothesised to be due to increasing contact between people and macaques due to deforestation. To explore how macaque responses to environmental change impact disease risks, we analysed movement of a GPS-collared long-tailed macaque in a knowlesi-endemic area in Sabah, Malaysia, during a deforestation event. Land-cover maps were derived from satellite-based and aerial remote sensing data and models of macaque occurrence were developed to evaluate how macaque habitat use was influenced by land-use change. During deforestation, changes were observed in macaqu

SUBMITTER: Stark DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6910895 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature