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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Project EcoARUn (Ref. POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030310), funded by FEDER, through COMPETE2020—Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização (POCI), and by national funds (OE), through FCT/MCTES. Thanks are due to FCT/MCTES for the financial support to CESAM (UID/AMB/50017/2019), through national funds.

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  1. Departamento de Biologia & CESAM, Universidade de Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, 3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal

    Rita Tinoco Torres, João Carvalho & Carlos Fonseca

  2. National Institute for Agrarian and Veterinary Research (INIAV, IP), Av. da República, Quinta do Marquês, 2780-157, Oeiras, Portugal

    Mónica V. Cunha

  3. Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c), Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, 1749-016, Lisbon, Portugal

    Mónica V. Cunha

  4. Biosystems & Integrative Sciences Institute (BioISI), Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, 1749-016, Lisbon, Portugal

    Mónica V. Cunha

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Torres, R.T., Carvalho, J., Cunha, M.V. et al. Antimicrobial Resistance and Ecology: A Dialog Yet to Begin. EcoHealth 16, 402–403 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-019-01438-y

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