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Invasive plants facilitated by socioeconomic change harbor vectors of scrub typhus and spotted fever
Aggressively out-competing native plants, invasive plants can not only have devastating effects on ecosystems but also provide ideal habitats for arthropod disease vectors. This photo shows the whole mountain in an island of Taiwan is invaded by the exotic white popinac. Wei, et al. (2020)
Image Credit: Chi-Chien Kuo
Citation: (2020) PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Issue Image | Vol. 14(1) July 2020. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 14(1): ev14.i01. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pntd.v14.i01
Published: July 9, 2020
Copyright: © 2020 . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Aggressively out-competing native plants, invasive plants can not only have devastating effects on ecosystems but also provide ideal habitats for arthropod disease vectors. This photo shows the whole mountain in an island of Taiwan is invaded by the exotic white popinac. Wei, et al. (2020)
Image Credit: Chi-Chien Kuo