Host niche may determine disease-driven extinction risk

• Mark Blooi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mark Blooi, Alexandra E. Laking

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Avian Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3882-3662

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• Alexandra E. Laking ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mark Blooi, Alexandra E. Laking

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Avian Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium, Operation Wallacea, Hope House, Old Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

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• An Martel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Avian Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

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• Freddy Haesebrouck,

  Roles Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Avian Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

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• Merlijn Jocque,

  Roles Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Operation Wallacea, Hope House, Old Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, California, United States of America

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• Tom Brown,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Operation Wallacea, Hope House, Old Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

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• Stephen Green,

  Roles Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Operation Wallacea, Hope House, Old Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom, Centre for Applied Zoology, Cornwall College Newquay, Cornwall, United Kingdom

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• Miguel Vences,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Zoological Institute, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

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• Molly C. Bletz,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Zoological Institute, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

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• Frank Pasmans

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Frank.Pasmans@UGent.be

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Avian Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

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