{"id":6708,"date":"2019-05-01T17:07:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T21:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6708"},"modified":"2019-06-10T18:09:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T22:09:59","slug":"biodiversity-losses-enhance-parasite-transmission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/biodiversity-losses-enhance-parasite-transmission\/","title":{"rendered":"Biodiversity losses enhance parasite transmission <img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org\/lookup\/doi\/10.1098\/rspb.2019.0260\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Published\u00a0May 1, 2019 | 17:01 EDT<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/press.royalsociety.org\/thePressRelease.aspx?id=19970\" target=\"_blank\">Brief<\/a> from the Royal Society)<br \/>\nIn this study into\u00a0how biodiversity losses influence disease risk, researchers found that although changes in infection by parasites depend more on the different\u00a0host species present than the diversity of those host species. However, loss of diversity increased infection success.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canadian co-author:<\/strong> Janet Koprivnikar, Ryerson University &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:jkoprivn@ryerson.ca\" target=\"_blank\">jkoprivn@ryerson.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Published\u00a0May 1, 2019 | 17:01 EDT (Brief from the Royal Society) In this study into\u00a0how biodiversity losses influence disease risk, researchers found that although changes in infection by parasites depend more on the different\u00a0host species present than the diversity of those host species. However, loss of diversity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1327,3259,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-scientifique","category-heads-up","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1Kc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6712,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708\/revisions\/6712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}