To advance our understanding of the mechanisms that mediate the relationships between global climatic and anthropogenic processes and pathogen occurrence, it is crucial to evaluate the exact pathways connecting the ecological mediators and the pathogen responses across spatial and temporal heterogeneities at various scales. We investigated the pathways connecting these two types of heterogeneities in sand stabilization that were created by contrasting forces of various human activities and long-term droughts, and pathogen occurrence in host populations. The considered candidate ecological mediators were various components of host community structure, arthropod vector traits, and the pathogen occurrence in these vectors.

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沙土稳定对病原体群落的级联效应：连接全球和地方进程

为了加深我们对调节全球气候和人为过程与病原体发生之间关系的机制的理解，评估连接生态介质和病原体反应的确切途径至关重要，这些途径跨越不同尺度的时空异质性。我们研究了连接这两种类型的沙土稳定异质性的途径，这些异质性是由各种人类活动和长期干旱的对比力量以及宿主种群中病原体的发生造成的。考虑的候选生态介质是宿主群落结构的各种组成部分、节肢动物载体特征以及这些载体中的病原体发生情况。