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Its maintenance and spillover risk depend on the ecology of its principal reservoir, Oligoryzomys longicaudatus, and on environmental changes that alter habitat availability, host abundance, and human\u2013rodent interfaces. We developed a mechanistic eco-epidemiological model that couples effective habitat cover to an SIR framework for ANDV transmission in O. longicaudatus. Habitat degradation and compensatory restoration modify rodent carrying capacity, natality, and the force of infection, which depends on infected host load relative to instantaneous ecological capacity. We derived the habitat equilibrium, the basic reproduction number R0, and the time-dependent effective reproduction number Re(t) and evaluated infection-burden and threshold indicators across degradation-restoration scenarios. The analysis shows that R0 is independent of equilibrium habitat cover because susceptible abundance scales with carrying capacity at the disease-free equilibrium. In contrast, Re(t), cumulative incidence, and infected load depend on transient habitat-mediated crowding. Restoration increases reservoir abundance and absolute infection burden, whereas degradation can reduce abundance while increasing crowding-driven transmission pressure and prolonging supercritical windows. 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