Does biodiversity protect humans against infectious disease? Comment

Frontiers in research on biodiversity and disease

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

Phylogenetic structure and host abundance drive disease pressure in communities

(2015) Ingrid M. Parker et al.   NATURE

Threshold levels of generalist predation determine consumer response to resource pulses

(2015) Taal Levi et al.   OIKOS

Widespread Forest Vertebrate Extinctions Induced by a Mega Hydroelectric Dam in Lowland Amazonia

(2015) Maíra Benchimol et al.   PLoS One

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

Collapse of the world's largest herbivores

(2015) W. J. Ripple et al.   Science Advances

Cascading Consequences of the Loss of Large Mammals in an African Savanna

(2014) Felicia Keesing et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Does biodiversity protect humans against infectious disease?

(2014) Chelsea L. Wood et al.   ECOLOGY

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

Defaunation in the Anthropocene

(2014) R. Dirzo et al.   SCIENCE

Status and Ecological Effects of the World's Largest Carnivores

(2014) W. J. Ripple et al.   SCIENCE

Do irrigation and predator control reduce the productivity of migratory ungulate herds?

(2013) Christopher C. Wilmers et al.   ECOLOGY

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

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

Lower Richness of Small Wild Mammal Species and Chagas Disease Risk

(2012) Samanta Cristina das Chagas Xavier et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Wolves–coyotes–foxes: a cascade among carnivores

(2011) Taal Levi et al.   ECOLOGY

Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

(2011) James A. Estes et al.   SCIENCE

Thrichomys laurentius (Rodentia; Echimyidae) as a Putative Reservoir of Leishmania infantum and L. braziliensis: Patterns of Experimental Infection

(2010) André Luiz Rodrigues Roque et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Food-Borne Trematodiases

(2009) J. Keiser et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS

Predator interactions, mesopredator release and biodiversity conservation

(2009) Euan G. Ritchie et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Taxonomy and species delimitation in Cryptosporidium

(2009) Ronald Fayer   EXPERIMENTAL PARASITOLOGY

Epidemic Dynamics at the Human-Animal Interface

(2009) J. O. Lloyd-Smith et al.   SCIENCE

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

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