利用生态关系防控疾病的机会与风险
Disease control is usually imagined as a campaign against a pathogen or its carrier. Ecological interventions take a different approach: they ask whether another organism can disrupt transmission by competing, feeding or altering the environment in which infection spreads.
Tiny insects may be powerful because they reproduce rapidly and occupy precise niches. Yet those same qualities make intervention hazardous. A species released or encouraged for one purpose can acquire new prey, move beyond the target habitat or reshape food webs in unforeseen ways.
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