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- Title
Emerging fungal threats to animal, plant and ecosystem health.
- Authors
Fisher, Matthew C.; Henk, Daniel. A.; Briggs, Cheryl J.; Brownstein, John S.; Madoff, Lawrence C.; McCraw, Sarah L.; Gurr, Sarah J.
- Abstract
The past two decades have seen an increasing number of virulent infectious diseases in natural populations and managed landscapes. In both animals and plants, an unprecedented number of fungal and fungal-like diseases have recently caused some of the most severe die-offs and extinctions ever witnessed in wild species, and are jeopardizing food security. Human activity is intensifying fungal disease dispersal by modifying natural environments and thus creating new opportunities for evolution. We argue that nascent fungal infections will cause increasing attrition of biodiversity, with wider implications for human and ecosystem health, unless steps are taken to tighten biosecurity worldwide.
- Subjects
FUNGI; VIRUS diseases; ANIMAL diseases; PLANT diseases; BIOLOGICAL extinction; BIODIVERSITY; BIOSECURITY
- Publication
Nature, 2012, Vol 484, Issue 7393, p186
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nature10947