Deforestation-driven food-web collapse linked to emerging tropical infectious disease, Mycobacterium ulcerans

Aaron L. Morris; Jean-François Guégan; Demetra Andreou; Laurent Marsollier; Kevin Carolan; Marie Le Croller; Daniel Sanhueza; Rodolphe E. Gozlan

doi:10.1126/sciadv.1600387

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Deforestation-driven food-web collapse linked to emerging tropical infectious disease, Mycobacterium ulcerans

Aaron L. Morris¹,²,*,
Jean-François Guégan²,³,
Demetra Andreou¹,
Laurent Marsollier⁴,
Kevin Carolan²,
Marie Le Croller²,
Daniel Sanhueza²,⁴ and
Rodolphe E. Gozlan¹,²,⁵

¹Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Bournemouth University, Dorset BH12 5BB, UK.
²Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, UMR MIVEGEC IRD-CNRS-Université de Montpellier, Centre IRD de Montpellier, BP 64501, Montpellier, France.
³International research programme Future Earth, ecoHEALTH initiative, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
⁴Equipe Inserm Avenir ATOMycA, CRCNA INSERM U892 and CNRS U6299, Université et CHU d’Angers, 49933 Angers, France.
⁵Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, UMR BOREA IRD-MNHN-Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, 47 rue Cuvier, 75231 Paris cedex 5, France.

↵*Corresponding author. Email: aaron.morris10{at}imperial.ac.uk

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Science Advances 07 Dec 2016:
Vol. 2, no. 12, e1600387
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1600387

Aaron L. Morris

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Jean-François Guégan

Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, UMR MIVEGEC IRD-CNRS-Université de Montpellier, Centre IRD de Montpellier, BP 64501, Montpellier, France.International research programme Future Earth, ecoHEALTH initiative, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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Demetra Andreou

Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Bournemouth University, Dorset BH12 5BB, UK.

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Laurent Marsollier

Equipe Inserm Avenir ATOMycA, CRCNA INSERM U892 and CNRS U6299, Université et CHU d’Angers, 49933 Angers, France.

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Kevin Carolan

Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, UMR MIVEGEC IRD-CNRS-Université de Montpellier, Centre IRD de Montpellier, BP 64501, Montpellier, France.

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Marie Le Croller

Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, UMR MIVEGEC IRD-CNRS-Université de Montpellier, Centre IRD de Montpellier, BP 64501, Montpellier, France.

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Daniel Sanhueza

Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, UMR MIVEGEC IRD-CNRS-Université de Montpellier, Centre IRD de Montpellier, BP 64501, Montpellier, France.Equipe Inserm Avenir ATOMycA, CRCNA INSERM U892 and CNRS U6299, Université et CHU d’Angers, 49933 Angers, France.

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Rodolphe E. Gozlan

Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Bournemouth University, Dorset BH12 5BB, UK.Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, UMR MIVEGEC IRD-CNRS-Université de Montpellier, Centre IRD de Montpellier, BP 64501, Montpellier, France.Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, UMR BOREA IRD-MNHN-Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, 47 rue Cuvier, 75231 Paris cedex 5, France.

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