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. 2014 Sep 26;502:276–279. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.09.028

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Ecosystem degradation has been shown to increase the risk of some diseases, but, given the unknown trajectory of restored ecosystems the act of restoration may not reduce the disease risk (solid line indicates disease risk in undisturbed ecosystem, broken line indicates disease risk in degraded ecosystem and possible trajectories under different restoration regimes).