Fighting Avian Flu

Schreuder, Janneke

doi:10.33540/844

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“…We thus collected other variables on waterbird community, as well as agro‐climatic predictors that have previously been identified as risk factors for H5Nx (Dhingra et al, 2016). Other waterbird community variables included waterbird species richness, the total waterbird abundance within the community, and the abundances of high‐risk species (Table S1), as classified by combining lists from previous studies (Schreuder, 2021; Veen et al, 2007). In addition, we also included the abundance of several specific species: Mallards ( Anas platyrhynchos ), Eurasian wigeon ( A. penelope ), and Tufted duck ( Aythya fuligula ), as these species were among the most identified species infected with H5Nx in 2016/17 epidemic (Alarcon et al, 2018).…”

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Functional traits explain waterbirds' host status, subtype richness, and community‐level infection risk for avian influenza

Yin,

Li,

et al. 2023

Ecology Letters

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Species functional traits can influence pathogen transmission processes, and consequently affect species' host status, pathogen diversity, and community‐level infection risk. We here investigated, for 143 European waterbird species, effects of functional traits on host status and pathogen diversity (subtype richness) for avian influenza virus at species level. We then explored the association between functional diversity and HPAI H5Nx occurrence at the community level for 2016/17 and 2021/22 epidemics in Europe. We found that both host status and subtype richness were shaped by several traits, such as diet guild and dispersal ability, and that the community‐weighted means of these traits were also correlated with community‐level risk of H5Nx occurrence. Moreover, functional divergence was negatively associated with H5Nx occurrence, indicating that functional diversity can reduce infection risk. Our findings highlight the value of integrating trait‐based ecology into the framework of diversity–disease relationship, and provide new insights for HPAI prediction and prevention.

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confidence: 99%