Biodiversity loss underlies the dilution effect of biodiversity

Dilution effect of plant diversity on infectious diseases: latitudinal trend and biological context dependence

(2020) Xiang Liu et al.   OIKOS

Sick plants in grassland communities: a growth‐defense trade‐off is the main driver of fungal pathogen abundance

(2020) Seraina L. Cappelli et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Positive correlations in species functional contributions drive the response of multifunctionality to biodiversity loss

(2020) Sebastian A. Heilpern et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Seed predation increases from the Arctic to the Equator and from high to low elevations

(2019) A. L. Hargreaves et al.   Science Advances

A balance of winners and losers in the Anthropocene

(2019) Maria Dornelas et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A theory of pulse dynamics and disturbance in ecology

(2019) Anke Jentsch et al.   ECOLOGY

Conventional land‐use intensification reduces species richness and increases production: A global meta‐analysis

(2019) Michael Beckmann et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Host traits and competitive ability jointly structure disease dynamics and community assembly

(2019) Devin Kirk et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Species richness change across spatial scales

(2019) Jonathan M. Chase et al.   OIKOS

Phylogenetic, functional, and taxonomic richness have both positive and negative effects on ecosystem multifunctionality

(2019) Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Trait variation across biological scales shapes community structure and ecosystem function

(2019) Denon Start et al.   ECOLOGY

When Landscape Ecology Meets Physiology: Effects of Habitat Fragmentation on Resource Allocation Trade-Offs

(2019) Yaron Ziv et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

A growth–defense trade-off is general across native and exotic grasses

(2019) Robert W. Heckman et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

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

Effect of spatial scale and latitude on diversity–disease relationships

(2019) Magnus Magnusson et al.   ECOLOGY

Towards common ground in the biodiversity–disease debate

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

Ecological and evolutionary drivers of the elevational gradient of diversity

(2018) Paola Laiolo et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Body-size shifts in aquatic and terrestrial urban communities

(2018) Thomas Merckx et al.   NATURE

Random species loss underestimates dilution effects of host diversity on foliar fungal diseases under fertilization

(2018) Xiang Liu et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Testing the effects of four urbanization filters on forest plant taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity

(2018) Bianca E. Lopez et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Past is prologue: host community assembly and the risk of infectious disease over time

(2018) Fletcher W. Halliday et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Environmental gradients and the evolution of tri-trophic interactions

(2018) Alan Kergunteuil et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Defuse the dilution effect debate

(2018) Samniqueka Halsey   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Overyielding in young tree plantations is driven by local complementarity and selection effects related to shade tolerance

(2017) Thomas Van de Peer et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Human infectious disease burdens decrease with urbanization but not with biodiversity

(2017) Chelsea L. Wood et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A multivariate test of disease risk reveals conditions leading to disease amplification

(2017) Fletcher W. Halliday et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Species decline under nitrogen fertilization increases community-level competence of fungal diseases

(2017) Xiang Liu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Higher predation risk for insect prey at low latitudes and elevations

(2017) Tomas Roslin et al.   SCIENCE

Introduced Species, Disease Ecology, and Biodiversity–Disease Relationships

(2017) Hillary S. Young et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Habitat, predators, and hosts regulate disease inDaphniathrough direct and indirect pathways

(2016) Alexander T. Strauss et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

A global analysis of traits predicting species sensitivity to habitat fragmentation

(2016) Douglas A. Keinath et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Integrating the pace-of-life syndrome across species, sexes and individuals: covariation of life history and personality under pesticide exposure

(2016) Sara Debecker et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

(2016) James B. Grace et al.   NATURE

Spatial scale modulates the strength of ecological processes driving disease distributions

(2016) Jeremy M. Cohen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rare species contribute disproportionately to the functional structure of species assemblages

(2016) Rafael P. Leitão et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Predictors of elevational biodiversity gradients change from single taxa to the multi-taxa community level

(2016) Marcell K. Peters et al.   Nature Communications

Risk evaluation of pesticide use to protected European reptile species

(2015) Norman Wagner et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Frontiers in research on biodiversity and disease

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

Land use intensification alters ecosystem multifunctionality via loss of biodiversity and changes to functional composition

(2015) Eric Allan et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Host life history and host-parasite syntopy predict behavioural resistance and tolerance of parasites

(2015) Brittany F. Sears et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

The path to host extinction can lead to loss of generalist parasites

(2015) Maxwell J. Farrell et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Habitat fragmentation and species richness

(2015) Ilkka Hanski   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

(2015) Tim Newbold et al.   NATURE

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

Anthropogenic environmental changes affect ecosystem stability via biodiversity

(2015) Y. Hautier et al.   SCIENCE

Why infectious disease research needs community ecology

(2015) P. T. J. Johnson et al.   SCIENCE

Host species composition influences infection severity among amphibians in the absence of spillover transmission

(2015) Barbara A. Han et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Conducting Meta-Analyses inRwith themetaforPackage

(2015) Wolfgang Viechtbauer   Journal of Statistical Software

High elevationPlantago lanceolataplants are less resistant to herbivory than their low elevation conspecifics: is it just temperature?

(2014) Loïc Pellissier et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Complex effects of fragmentation on remnant woodland plant communities of a rapidly urbanizing biodiversity hotspot

(2014) Cristina E. Ramalho et al.   ECOLOGY

Environmental heterogeneity as a universal driver of species richness across taxa, biomes and spatial scales

(2014) Anke Stein et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

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

(2014) H. S. Young et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Species diversity and life history traits in calcareous grasslands vary along an urbanization gradient

(2013) Harald Albrecht et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Adult age of vascular plant species along an elevational land-use and climate gradient

(2013) Michael P. Nobis et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Does life history mediate changing disease risk when communities disassemble?

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

Biotic interaction strength and the intensity of selection

(2013) Craig W. Benkman   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Linking manipulative experiments to field data to test the dilution effect

(2013) Matthew D. Venesky et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

River network properties shape α-diversity and community similarity patterns of aquatic insect communities across major drainage basins

(2013) Florian Altermatt et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Biodiversity decreases disease through predictable changes in host community competence

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

Effect of host species diversity on multiparasite systems in rodent communities

(2013) Emilio Rendón-Franco et al.   PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH

Correction: Conditionally Immortalized Mouse Embryonic Fibroblasts Retain Proliferative Activity without Compromising Multipotent Differentiation Potential

(2013) Enyi Huang et al.   PLoS One

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

Rethinking Community Assembly through the Lens of Coexistence Theory

(2012) J. HilleRisLambers et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Coextinction and Persistence of Dependent Species in a Changing World

(2012) Robert K. Colwell et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

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

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

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

Effects of Host Diversity on Infectious Disease

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

Biodiversity and leptospirosis risk: A case of pathogen regulation?

(2011) Bonnie T. Derne et al.   MEDICAL HYPOTHESES

Functional Structure of Biological Communities Predicts Ecosystem Multifunctionality

(2011) David Mouillot et al.   PLoS One

Host physiological phenotype explains pathogen reservoir potential

(2010) James Patrick Cronin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases

(2010) Felicia Keesing et al.   NATURE

Butterfly flight activity affects reproductive performance and longevity relative to landscape structure

(2010) Melanie Gibbs et al.   OECOLOGIA

Conceptual Synthesis in Community Ecology

(2010) Mark Vellend   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

A global synthesis of plant extinction rates in urban areas

(2009) Amy K. Hahs et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Modelling vascular plant diversity at the landscape scale using systematic samples

(2008) Thomas Wohlgemuth et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

A conceptual framework for predicting the effects of urban environments on floras

(2008) Nicholas S.G. Williams et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Environment, Migratory Tendency, Phylogeny and Basal Metabolic Rate in Birds

(2008) Walter Jetz et al.   PLoS One

Global Change and the Ecology of Cities

(2008) N. B. Grimm et al.   SCIENCE

Effects of urbanization on species richness: A review of plants and animals

(2008) Michael L. McKinney   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS