Declines in large wildlife increase landscape-level prevalence of rodent-borne disease in Africa

Does biodiversity protect humans against infectious disease?

(2014) Chelsea L. Wood et al.   ECOLOGY

Biodiversity and human health: evidence for causality?

(2013) Rupert Lloyd Hough   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Badger social networks correlate with tuberculosis infection

(2013) Nicola Weber et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Effects of wildlife and cattle on tick abundance in central Kenya

(2013) Felicia Keesing et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Does habitat disturbance increase infectious disease risk for primates?

(2013) Hillary Young et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A meta-analysis suggesting that the relationship between biodiversity and risk of zoonotic pathogen transmission is idiosyncratic

(2013) Daniel J Salkeld et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Effects of mammalian herbivore declines on plant communities: observations and experiments in an African savanna

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Non-random biodiversity loss underlies predictable increases in viral disease prevalence

(2013) C. Lacroix et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Piecewise Disassembly of a Large-Herbivore Community across a Rainfall Gradient: The UHURU Experiment

(2013) Jacob R. Goheen et al.   PLoS One

Host and parasite diversity jointly control disease risk in complex communities

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Human health impacts of ecosystem alteration

(2013) S. S. Myers et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A comparison of bats and rodents as reservoirs of zoonotic viruses: are bats special?

(2013) A. D. Luis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Functional Extinction of Birds Drives Rapid Evolutionary Changes in Seed Size

(2013) M. Galetti et al.   SCIENCE

Ecosystem ecology: size-based constraints on the pyramids of life

(2013) Rowan Trebilco et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Pangloss revisited: a critique of the dilution effect and the biodiversity-buffers-disease paradigm

(2012) S. E. RANDOLPH et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Deer, predators, and the emergence of Lyme disease

(2012) T. Levi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Effects of Host Diversity on Infectious Disease

(2011) Richard S. Ostfeld et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Molecular Detection and Identification of Bartonella Species in Xenopsylla cheopis Fleas (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae) Collected from Rattus norvegicus Rats in Los Angeles, California

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Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?

(2011) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   NATURE

Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

(2011) James A. Estes et al.   SCIENCE

Community ecology and disease risk: lizards, squirrels, and the Lyme disease spirochete in California, USA

(2010) Daniel J. Salkeld et al.   ECOLOGY

Fleas and flea-borne diseases

(2010) Idir Bitam et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Bartonellosis, an increasingly recognized zoonosis

(2010) B.B. Chomel et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Phylogenetic diversity does not capture body size variation at risk in the world's mammals

(2010) S. A. Fritz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Population dynamics of two sympatric rodents in a variable environment: rainfall, resource availability, and predation

(2009) M. Andrea Previtali et al.   ECOLOGY

Geographical variation in predictors of mammalian extinction risk: big is bad, but only in the tropics

(2009) Susanne A. Fritz et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Experimental Evidence for Reduced Rodent Diversity Causing Increased Hantavirus Prevalence

(2009) Gerardo Suzán et al.   PLoS One

Sin Nombre Virus and Rodent Species Diversity: A Test of the Dilution and Amplification Hypotheses

(2009) Christine A. Clay et al.   PLoS One

Cyclic hantavirus epidemics in humans — Predicted by rodent host dynamics

(2009) Eva R. Kallio et al.   Epidemics

A molecular phylogeny of fleas (Insecta: Siphonaptera): origins and host associations

(2008) Michael F. Whiting et al.   CLADISTICS

IMPACT OF HOST COMMUNITY COMPOSITION ON LYME DISEASE RISK

(2008) Kathleen LoGiudice et al.   ECOLOGY

Effects of the removal of large herbivores on fleas of small mammals

(2008) Douglas J. McCauley et al.   JOURNAL OF VECTOR ECOLOGY

Vector transmission of Bartonella species with emphasis on the potential for tick transmission

(2008) S. A. BILLETER et al.   MEDICAL AND VETERINARY ENTOMOLOGY

Temporal and Spatial Patterns of Bartonella Infection in Black-tailed Prairie Dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus)

(2008) Ying Bai et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

The Status of the World's Land and Marine Mammals: Diversity, Threat, and Knowledge

(2008) J. Schipper et al.   SCIENCE