Towards a mechanistic understanding of competence: a missing link in diversity–disease research

Scaling of Host Competence

(2019) Cynthia J. Downs et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Chance or choice? Understanding parasite selection and infection in multi-host communities

(2019) Pieter T.J. Johnson et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Variation in immune defense shapes disease outcomes in laboratory and wild Daphnia

(2019) Tara E Stewart Merrill et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Avian health across the landscape: nestling immunity covaries with changing landcover

(2019) Loren Merrill et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Community disassembly and disease: realistic—but not randomized—biodiversity losses enhance parasite transmission

(2019) Pieter T. J. Johnson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Extreme Competence: Keystone Hosts of Infections

(2019) Lynn B. Martin et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Thermal biology of mosquito‐borne disease

(2019) Erin A. Mordecai et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Measuring the shape of the biodiversity-disease relationship across systems reveals new findings and key gaps

(2019) Fletcher W. Halliday et al.   Nature Communications

Macroimmunology: The drivers and consequences of spatial patterns in wildlife immune defence

(2019) Daniel J. Becker et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Towards common ground in the biodiversity–disease debate

(2019) Jason R. Rohr et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

The pace-of-life syndrome revisited: the role of ecological conditions and natural history on the slow-fast continuum

(2018) Pierre-Olivier Montiglio et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Physiological and immunological responses of birds and mammals to forest degradation: A meta-analysis

(2018) Simone Messina et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Parasite Tolerance and Host Competence in Avian Host Defense to West Nile Virus

(2018) Sarah C. Burgan et al.   EcoHealth

Linking host traits, interactions with competitors and disease: Mechanistic foundations for disease dilution

(2018) Alexander T. Strauss et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Fear of feces? Tradeoffs between disease risk and foraging drive animal activity around raccoon latrines

(2018) Sara B. Weinstein et al.   OIKOS

Species diversity concurrently dilutes and amplifies transmission in a zoonotic host–pathogen system through competing mechanisms

(2018) Angela D. Luis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Shifts in disease dynamics in a tropical amphibian assemblage are not due to pathogen attenuation

(2018) Jamie Voyles et al.   SCIENCE

How Individual Variation in Host Tolerance Affects Competence to Transmit Parasites

(2018) Sarah C. Burgan et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY

A host immune hormone modifies parasite species interactions and epidemics: insights from a field manipulation

(2018) Fletcher W. Halliday et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Defuse the dilution effect debate

(2018) Samniqueka Halsey   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Tolerance of infection: A role for animal behavior, potential immune mechanisms, and consequences for parasite transmission

(2017) James S. Adelman et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

The stress response and immune system share, borrow, and reconfigure their physiological network elements: Evidence from the insects

(2017) Shelley A. Adamo   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Contact and contagion: Probability of transmission given contact varies with demographic state in bighorn sheep

(2017) Kezia R. Manlove et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Breaking beta: deconstructing the parasite transmission function

(2017) Hamish McCallum et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Stress hormones predict a host superspreader phenotype in the West Nile virus system

(2017) Stephanie S. Gervasi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The ecological importance of intraspecific variation

(2017) Simone Des Roches et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Heterogeneity in pathogen transmission: mechanisms and methodology

(2016) Kimberly L. VanderWaal et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Host Competence: An Organismal Trait to Integrate Immunology and Epidemiology

(2016) Lynn B. Martin et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

The diversity–disease relationship: evidence for and criticisms of the dilution effect

(2016) Z. Y. X. HUANG et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Drivers of variation in species impacts for a multi-host fungal disease of bats

(2016) Kate E. Langwig et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Host behaviour–parasite feedback: an essential link between animal behaviour and disease ecology: Table 1.

(2016) Vanessa O. Ezenwa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Coupled Heterogeneities and Their Impact on Parasite Transmission and Control

(2016) Gonzalo M. Vazquez-Prokopec et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Development and application of an eDNA method to detect and quantify a pathogenic parasite in aquatic ecosystems

(2015) J. R. Huver et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Frontiers in research on biodiversity and disease

(2015) Pieter T. J. Johnson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Evaluating environmental DNA-based quantification of ranavirus infection in wood frog populations

(2015) Emily M. Hall et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Rodent reservoirs of future zoonotic diseases

(2015) Barbara A. Han et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biodiversity inhibits parasites: Broad evidence for the dilution effect

(2015) David J. Civitello et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Feeder use predicts both acquisition and transmission of a contagious pathogen in a North American songbird

(2015) James S. Adelman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The context of host competence: a role for plasticity in host–parasite dynamics

(2015) Stephanie S. Gervasi et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Does biodiversity protect humans against infectious disease?

(2014) Chelsea L. Wood et al.   ECOLOGY

The Scaling of Host Density with Richness Affects the Direction, Shape, and Detectability of Diversity-Disease Relationships

(2014) Joseph R. Mihaljevic et al.   PLoS One

Does habitat disturbance increase infectious disease risk for primates?

(2013) Hillary Young et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Does life history mediate changing disease risk when communities disassemble?

(2013) Maxwell B. Joseph et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Disentangling the interaction among host resources, the immune system and pathogens

(2013) Clayton E. Cressler et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Experimental infection dynamics: using immunosuppression and in vivo parasite tracking to understand host resistance in an amphibian-trematode system

(2013) B. E. LaFonte et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

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

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

Biodiversity decreases disease through predictable changes in host community competence

(2013) Pieter T. J. Johnson et al.   NATURE

Species' Life-History Traits Explain Interspecific Variation in Reservoir Competence: A Possible Mechanism Underlying the Dilution Effect

(2013) Zheng Y. X. Huang et al.   PLoS One

Living fast and dying of infection: host life history drives interspecific variation in infection and disease risk

(2012) Pieter T. J. Johnson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Relationship between pace of life and immune responses in wild rodents

(2012) M. Andrea Previtali et al.   OIKOS

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

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

The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology

(2012) Cyrille Violle et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Biodiversity and disease: a synthesis of ecological perspectives on Lyme disease transmission

(2012) Chelsea L. Wood et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Host Life History Strategy, Species Diversity, and Habitat Influence Trypanosoma cruzi Vector Infection in Changing Landscapes

(2012) Nicole L. Gottdenker et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Effects of Host Diversity on Infectious Disease

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

Warmer temperatures reduce the vectorial capacity of malaria mosquitoes

(2011) K. P. Paaijmans et al.   Biology Letters

Aphids indirectly increase virulence and transmission potential of a monarch butterfly parasite by reducing defensive chemistry of a shared food plant

(2011) Jacobus C. de Roode et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Critical windows of disease risk: amphibian pathology driven by developmental changes in host resistance and tolerance

(2011) Pieter T. J. Johnson et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Does Animal Behavior Underlie Covariation Between Hosts’ Exposure to Infectious Agents and Susceptibility to Infection? Implications for Disease Dynamics

(2011) Dana M. Hawley et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Why intraspecific trait variation matters in community ecology

(2011) Daniel I. Bolnick et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Clinical and Pathologic Responses of American Crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos) and Fish Crows (C ossifragus) to Experimental West Nile Virus Infection

(2011) N. M. Nemeth et al.   VETERINARY PATHOLOGY

Spatial and Temporal Variation in Vector Competence of Culex pipiens and Cx. restuans Mosquitoes for West Nile Virus

(2010) A. Marm Kilpatrick et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

Host species determines whether infection load increases beyond disease-causing thresholds following exposure to the amphibian chytrid fungus

(2010) M. P. Stockwell et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

The effects of anthropogenic global changes on immune functions and disease resistance

(2010) Lynn B. Martin et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

How do traits vary across ecological scales? A case for trait-based ecology

(2010) Julie Messier et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Host physiological phenotype explains pathogen reservoir potential

(2010) James Patrick Cronin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Developmental variation in resistance and tolerance in a multi-host-parasite system

(2010) Jason R. Rohr et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Ecological immunology and tolerance in plants and animals

(2010) Regina S. Baucom et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Diversity, decoys and the dilution effect: how ecological communities affect disease risk

(2010) P. T. J. Johnson et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases

(2010) Felicia Keesing et al.   NATURE

A temporal dilution effect: hantavirus infection in deer mice and the intermittent presence of voles in Montana

(2010) Scott Carver et al.   OECOLOGIA

Friendly competition: evidence for a dilution effect among competitors in a planktonic host–parasite system

(2009) Spencer R. Hall et al.   ECOLOGY

Disentangling Vector-Borne Transmission Networks: A Universal DNA Barcoding Method to Identify Vertebrate Hosts from Arthropod Bloodmeals

(2009) Miguel Alcaide 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

Ecological correlates of risk and incidence of West Nile virus in the United States

(2008) Brian F. Allan et al.   OECOLOGIA

The predictability of extinction: biological and external correlates of decline in mammals

(2008) M. Cardillo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES