ecology drives the global distribution of human diseases生态驱动人类疾病的全球分布.pdfVIP

Research Digest Synopses of Research Articles Ecology Drives the Global Distribution of Human Diseases It’s no surprise that the Amazonian rainforest contains far more species than, say, the Siberian tundra. Over 50% of the world’s species live in tropical rainforests, which cover just 6% to 7% of the earth’s terrestrial surface. That the number of marine and terrestrial species declines with distance from the equator is a well-documented phenomenon called the latitudinal species diversity gradient. What’s proven challenging, however, is fi guring out what drives this pattern. Ov