Community Assembly Reveals How Environmental Controls Over Rodent Competition Drive Deer Mouse Density and Hantavirus Infection
B1 Crossref Works API · 2026-03-30 · United States · SNV
ABSTRACT Host diversity can strongly influence disease prevalence, but whether it dilutes or amplifies disease remains debated. We applied community assembly theory to examine whether conditionality from abiotic and biotic filtering could explain variation in rodent diversity and Sin Nombre hantavirus (SNV) prevalence across 24 locations in the southwestern United States. Overall, community composition, not diversity per se, drove diversity‐disease relationships. Environmental factors determined community composition, which regulated primary host abundance and SNV infection v
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HORIZON metadata
| Source | Crossref Works API (crossref) |
|---|---|
| NATO rating | B1 — see methodology |
| Country | United States |
| Serotype | SNV |
| Reported date | 2026-03-30 |
| Ingested at | 2026-05-12 00:50 UTC |