Knowing the Biosphere: Documentation, Specimens, Archives, and Names Reveal Environmental Change and Emerging Pathogens

Authors

Eric P. Hoberg, University of Wisconsin–MadisonFollow
Valeria Trivellone, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignFollow
Joseph A. Cook, University of New Mexico
Jonathan L. Dunnum, University of New Mexico
Walter A. Boeger, Universidade Federal do ParanáFollow
Daniel R. Brooks, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, Institute of Evolution, Centre for Ecological Research, Budapest
Salvatore J. Agosta, Virginia Commonwealth UniversityFollow
Jocelyn P. Colella, University of Kansas

ORCID IDs

Salvatore J. Agosta https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1874-5572

Walter A. Boeger https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6004-2822

Daniel R. Brooks https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7891-9821

Jocelyn P. Colella https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2463-1029

Joseph A. Cook https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3985-0670

Jonathan L. Dunnum https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7868-3719

Eric P. Hoberg https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0819-7437

Valeria Trivellone https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1415-4097

Date of this Version

12-21-2022

Document Type

Article

Citation

MANTER: Journal of Parasite Biodiversity Occasional Papers, Number 26, December 21, 2022

doi: 10.32873/unl.dc.manter26

https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/manter/

Comments

Copyright © 2022 Eric P. Hoberg, Valeria Trivellone, Joseph A. Cook, Jonathan L. Dunnum, Walter A. Boeger, Daniel R. Brooks, Salvatore J. Agosta, and Jocelyn P. Colella

Abstract

One Health programs and trajectories are now the apparent standard for exploring the occurrence and distribution of emerging pathogens and disease. By definition, One Health has been characterized as a broadly inclusive, collaborative, and transdisciplinary approach with connectivity across local to global scales, which integrates the medical and veterinary community to recognize health outcomes emerging at the environmental nexus for people, animals, plants, and their shared landscapes. One Health has been an incomplete model, conceptually and operationally, focused on reactive and response-based foundations, to limit the impact of emerging pathogens and emerging infectious diseases and, as such, lacks a powerful proactive capacity. A proactive, predictive One Health is necessary, emanating in part from geographically/taxonomically broad and temporally deep biological collections of pathogen-host assemblages. The DAMA protocol (Document, Assess, Monitor, Act), the operational extension of the Stockholm paradigm (SP), accomplishes this task by encompassing holistic and strategic biological sampling of reservoir host assemblages and pathogens at environmental interfaces and more extensively through resurveys, with development of informatics resources digitally linked to physical specimens held in publicly accessible museum biorepositories. Archives of specimens are the foundations for accumulating interrelated archives of information (the baselines against which change can be identified and tracked), with collections serving as fundamental resources for biodiversity informatics under the conceptual evolutionary and ecological umbrella of the SP. A cultural and conceptual transformation is essential among the diverse practitioners in the One Health community, one that recognizes the necessity of placing pathogens in an evolutionary, ecological, and environmental context by integrating specimens and associated informatics into an infrastructure and networks for actionable information. As a community, it is essential to abandon response-based business as usual while looking forward toward proactive transboundary approaches that maximize our conceptual and taxonomic view of diversity across interconnected planetary scales that influence the complexity of pathogen-host interfaces. Evolution, where the past always influences the present and the future, defines our trajectory, as the need for sustained archives that describe the biosphere becomes more acute with each passing day.