Farmland and forest: rodents ecologically released in the forest can be attracted to nearby farmland, which can provide resources and suitable breeding habitat. Since rodents are common hosts for infectious diseases, they could spread disease into the farmland when they come into contact with farm animals or humans.

Example of Effects of Ecotones in Urban Landscape

Ecotones in urban landscape can bring together human, vectors, and reservoir hosts, thus increases contact and risk of transmission.


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Edges or transitional zones between adjacent ecological systems where biophysical factors, biological activity, and ecological evolutionary processes are concentrated and intensified

Ecotones

Hassell, James M, et al. “Urbanization and Disease Emergence: Dynamics at the Wildlife-Livestock-Human Interface.” Trends in Ecology &amp; Evolution, Elsevier Science Publishers, Jan. 2017, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5214842/. 

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