Disease epidemics: lessons for resilience in an increasingly connected world

Disease epidemics: lessons for resilience in an increasingly connected world.

S.N. DeWitte1, M.H. Kurth2, C.R. Allen3, I. Linkov2 Departments of Anthropology and Biological Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA United States Army Corps of Engineer, Engineer Research and Development Center, Concord, MA 01742, USA US Geological Survey, Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska, Lincoln...

An increasingly scented world

We know that, at least in the short term, a rise in temperature exponentially increases the emission rates of most biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs). It does so by enhancing the enzymatic activities of synthesis, by raising the BVOC vapour pressure, and by decreasing the resistance of the diffusion pathway (Tingey et al., 1991). BVOC emissions are thus expected to increase strongly wi...

An Increasingly Fragile World

Living in an increasingly connected world: a framework for continental-scale environmental science

© The Ecological Society of America www.frontiersinecology.org T interplay between fine-scale patterns and processes and broad-scale dynamics is increasingly being recognized as key to understanding ecosystem dynamics, particularly as the number and magnitude of global change drivers increases over time (Huston 1999; Rodó et al. 2002; King et al. 2004). Cross-scale interactions (CSI) are proces...

COVID-19 Outbreak in Africa: Lessons and Insights from the West African Ebola Virus Disease Epidemics

Over the years, the African continent has had to battle several outbreaks of infectious diseases in different countries. Some of the most deadly were the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreaks that occurred in West Africa between 2014 and 2016 affecting Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone and, more recently, from 2018 to 2020 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In the era of the COVID-19 pand...