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Nature 447, 652-653 (7 June 2007) | doi:10.1038/nature05889; Published online 16 May 2007
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Disease ecology: The silence of the robins
Carsten Rahbek1
Abstract
A continent-wide analysis suggests that West Nile virus has severely affected bird populations associated with human habitats in North America. The declines parallel patterns of human disease caused by the virus.
Scenes reminiscent of those described in Rachel Carlson's Silent Spring1 have been occurring in suburban America. This time, it is not pesticides that are to blame for a decline in bird populations, but outbreaks of West Nile virus2.
- Carsten Rahbek is at the Center for Macroecology, Institute of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
Email: crahbek@.bi.ku.dk
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West Nile virus emergence and large-scale declines of North American bird populationsNature Letters to Editor (07 Jun 2007)
