Fig. 4: Biodiversity science as biosurveillance.
a, Geolocated occurrence records for Aedes aegypti, the primary urban vector of several viruses, including dengue, yellow fever and Zika. b, Geolocated occurrence records for horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus spp.), the primary known wildlife reservoir of SARS-like coronaviruses. Information contained in digital biodiversity infrastructure and museum collections is both a foundational resource for long-term ecological research and an open source of real-time epidemic intelligence and viral discovery. The photograph in a is reprinted from https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/3910014308, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode); the photograph in b is reprinted from https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/2432534405, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). GBIF, Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
