Disease ecology, biodiversity, and the latitudinal gradient in income.

While most of the world is thought to be on long-term economic growth paths, more than one-sixth of the world is roughly as poor today as their ancestors were hundreds of years ago. The majority of the extremely poor live in the tropics. The latitudinal gradient in income is highly suggestive of und...

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Autores principales: Matthew H Bonds, Andrew P Dobson, Donald C Keenan
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:6186b824a1b54979be8685cbbb4f83f32021-11-18T05:37:18ZDisease ecology, biodiversity, and the latitudinal gradient in income.1544-91731545-788510.1371/journal.pbio.1001456https://doaj.org/article/6186b824a1b54979be8685cbbb4f83f32012-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23300379/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1544-9173https://doaj.org/toc/1545-7885While most of the world is thought to be on long-term economic growth paths, more than one-sixth of the world is roughly as poor today as their ancestors were hundreds of years ago. The majority of the extremely poor live in the tropics. The latitudinal gradient in income is highly suggestive of underlying biophysical drivers, of which disease conditions are an especially salient example. However, conclusions have been confounded by the simultaneous causality between income and disease, in addition to potentially spurious relationships. We use a simultaneous equations model to estimate the relative effects of vector-borne and parasitic diseases (VBPDs) and income on each other, controlling for other factors. Our statistical model indicates that VBPDs have systematically affected economic development, evident in contemporary levels of per capita income. The burden of VBDPs is, in turn, determined by underlying ecological conditions. In particular, the model predicts it to rise as biodiversity falls. Through these positive effects on human health, the model thus identifies measurable economic benefits of biodiversity.Matthew H BondsAndrew P DobsonDonald C KeenanPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleBiology (General)QH301-705.5ENPLoS Biology, Vol 10, Iss 12, p e1001456 (2012)
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Matthew H Bonds
Andrew P Dobson
Donald C Keenan
Disease ecology, biodiversity, and the latitudinal gradient in income.
description While most of the world is thought to be on long-term economic growth paths, more than one-sixth of the world is roughly as poor today as their ancestors were hundreds of years ago. The majority of the extremely poor live in the tropics. The latitudinal gradient in income is highly suggestive of underlying biophysical drivers, of which disease conditions are an especially salient example. However, conclusions have been confounded by the simultaneous causality between income and disease, in addition to potentially spurious relationships. We use a simultaneous equations model to estimate the relative effects of vector-borne and parasitic diseases (VBPDs) and income on each other, controlling for other factors. Our statistical model indicates that VBPDs have systematically affected economic development, evident in contemporary levels of per capita income. The burden of VBDPs is, in turn, determined by underlying ecological conditions. In particular, the model predicts it to rise as biodiversity falls. Through these positive effects on human health, the model thus identifies measurable economic benefits of biodiversity.
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author Matthew H Bonds
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Donald C Keenan
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Andrew P Dobson
Donald C Keenan
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title Disease ecology, biodiversity, and the latitudinal gradient in income.
title_short Disease ecology, biodiversity, and the latitudinal gradient in income.
title_full Disease ecology, biodiversity, and the latitudinal gradient in income.
title_fullStr Disease ecology, biodiversity, and the latitudinal gradient in income.
title_full_unstemmed Disease ecology, biodiversity, and the latitudinal gradient in income.
title_sort disease ecology, biodiversity, and the latitudinal gradient in income.
publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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