Decline in natural food resources and abundance of flowering resources in urban gardens led to large colonies of bats in Eastern Australia, which are hosts for the Hendra virus.

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Resource provisioning is the clumping of resources that occurs in local and landscape scales such as informal livestock keeping. This can lead to an increase of pathogen hosts/vectors.

Effects of Resource Provisioning

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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