The dilution effect behind the scenes: testing the underlying assumptions of its mechanisms through quantifying the long-term dynamics and effects of a pathogen in multiple host species

The role of native and introduced birds in transmission of avian malaria in Hawaiʻi

(2020) Katherine M. McClure et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2020) Tara E. Stewart Merrill et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Trait‐based variation in host contribution to pathogen transmission across species and resource supplies

(2020) Miranda E. Welsh et al.   ECOLOGY

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

The dynamics between limited-term and lifelong coinfecting bacterial parasites in wild rodent hosts

(2019) Anat Eidelman et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

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

Quantifying the dilution effect for models in ecological epidemiology

(2018) M. G. Roberts et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

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

Haemoplasmas in wild rodents: Routes of transmission and infection dynamics

(2018) Carmit Cohen et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Defuse the dilution effect debate

(2018) Samniqueka Halsey   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Dynamic, spatial models of parasite transmission in wildlife: Their structure, applications and remaining challenges

(2017) Lauren A. White et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

From endosymbionts to host communities: factors determining the reproductive success of arthropod vectors

(2017) Irit Messika et al.   OECOLOGIA

Null expectations for disease dynamics in shrinking habitat: dilution or amplification?

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

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

Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines

(2017) Gerardo Ceballos et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Population Density, Not Host Competence, Drives Patterns of Disease in an Invaded Community

(2016) Catherine L. Searle et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

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

Using contact networks to explore mechanisms of parasite transmission in wildlife

(2015) Lauren A. White et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Success, failure and ambiguity of the dilution effect among competitors

(2015) Alexander T. Strauss et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Frontiers in research on biodiversity and disease

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

Path analyses of cross-sectional and longitudinal data suggest that variability in natural communities of blood-associated parasites is derived from host characteristics and not interspecific interactions

(2015) Carmit Cohen et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Predator diversity, intraguild predation, and indirect effects drive parasite transmission

(2015) Jason R. Rohr 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

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

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

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

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

Does biodiversity protect humans against infectious disease?

(2014) Chelsea L. Wood et al.   ECOLOGY

Partitioning the net effect of host diversity on an emerging amphibian pathogen

(2014) C. G. Becker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Multiple effects of host-species diversity on coexisting host-specific and host-opportunistic microbes

(2013) Hadar Kedem et al.   ECOLOGY

Linking manipulative experiments to field data to test the dilution effect

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

Biodiversity decreases disease through predictable changes in host community competence

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

Haemoplasmas: Lessons learnt from cats

(2013) E Barker et al.   NEW ZEALAND VETERINARY JOURNAL

Linking community and disease ecology: the impact of biodiversity on pathogen transmission

(2012) B. Roche et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Measuring stress in wildlife: techniques for quantifying glucocorticoids

(2011) Michael J. Sheriff 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

Contact heterogeneity in deer mice: implications for Sin Nombre virus transmission

(2009) C. A Clay et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Diversity and disease: community structure drives parasite transmission and host fitness

(2008) Pieter T. J. Johnson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Global trends in emerging infectious diseases

(2008) Kate E. Jones et al.   NATURE