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    Biodiversity: the Overlooked Source of Human Health
    (Elsevier, 2023) Linhares, Yuliya; Kaganski, Alexander; Agyare, Christian; Aksan Kurnaz, Işıl; Neergheen, Vidushi; Kolodziejczyk, Bartlomiej; Baran, Yusuf
    Biodiversity is the measure of the variation of lifeforms in a given ecological system. Biodiversity provides ecosystems with the robustness, stability, and resilience that sustains them. This is ultimately essential for our survival because we depend on the services that natural ecosystems provide (food, fresh water, air, climate, and medicine). Despite this, human activity is driving an unprecedented rate of biodiversity decline, which may jeopardize the life-support systems of the planet if no urgent action is taken. In this article we show why biodiversity is essential for human health. We raise our case and focus on the biomedicine services that are enabled by biodiversity, and we present known and novel approaches to promote biodiversity conservation.
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    Citation - WoS: 28
    Citation - Scopus: 45
    Biodiversity, Drug Discovery, and the Future of Global Health: Introducing the Biodiversity To Biomedicine Consortium, a Call To Action
    (Edinburgh University Global Health Society, 2017) Neergheen-Bhujun, Vidushi; Awan, Almas Taj; Baran, Yusuf; Bunnefeld, Nils; Chan, Kit; Dela Cruz, Thomas Edison; Egamberdieva, Dilfuza; Elsasser, Simon; Johnson, Mari-Vaughn V.; Komai, Shoji; Konevega, Andrey L.; Malone, John H.; Mason, Paul; Nguon, Rothsophal; Piper, Ross; Shrestha, Uttam Babu; Pesic, Milica; Kagansky, Alexander
    Looking to nature for medicine is nothing new – we have been doing it for tens of thousands of years and although modern pharmaceutical science has come a long way from those ancient roots, nature is and will always be an important source of useful compounds and inspiration. Dismissing nature in this regard is a huge mistake as evolution is the greatest problem solver and the myriad compounds produced by the immense variety of species we share the planet with have been honed by three billion years of trial and error. However, with every bit of habitat that disappears under the plough or concrete we impoverish nature and deprive ourselves of potential medicines.