What Happens when Forests Fall?

Overview

Journal Elife

Specialty Biology

Date 2021 Apr 6

PMID 33821799

Citations 1

Authors

Mercedes Pascual

Andres Baeza

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Abstract

Combining spatial and temporal data is helping researchers to understand how deforestation influences the risk of malaria.

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