Frontiers in research on biodiversity and disease

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

Opposite effects of anthelmintic treatment on microbial infection at individual versus population scales

(2015) V. O. Ezenwa et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2014) Felicia Keesing et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Microscopic Aquatic Predators Strongly Affect Infection Dynamics of a Globally Emerged Pathogen

(2014) Dirk S. Schmeller et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Host diversity drives parasite diversity: meta-analytical insights into patterns and causal mechanisms

(2014) Tsukushi Kamiya et al.   ECOGRAPHY

The negative relationship between mammal host diversity and Lyme disease incidence strengthens through time

(2014) Shaun Turney et al.   ECOLOGY

Higher plant diversity promotes higher diversity of fungal pathogens, while it decreases pathogen infection per plant

(2014) Tanja Rottstock et al.   ECOLOGY

Geography, Deer, and Host Biodiversity Shape the Pattern of Lyme Disease Emergence in the Thousand Islands Archipelago of Ontario, Canada

(2014) Lisa Werden et al.   PLoS One

Infectious Diseases and Their Outbreaks in Asia-Pacific: Biodiversity and Its Regulation Loss Matter

(2014) Serge Morand et al.   PLoS One

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

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

Dynamics and Drivers of Hantavirus Prevalence in Rodent Populations

(2014) Hussein Khalil et al.   VECTOR-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES

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

Differential sources of host species heterogeneity influence the transmission and control of multihost parasites

(2013) Daniel G. Streicker et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Biotic resistance in marine environments

(2013) David L. Kimbro 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

Linking manipulative experiments to field data to test the dilution effect

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

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

A Candide response to Panglossian accusations by Randolph and Dobson: biodiversity buffers disease

(2013) RICHARD S. OSTFELD   PARASITOLOGY

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

Microbiota Dynamics in Patients Treated with Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection

(2013) Yang Song et al.   PLoS One

Host and parasite diversity jointly control disease risk in complex communities

(2013) P. T. J. Johnson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Straw men don’t get Lyme disease: response to Wood and Lafferty

(2013) Richard S. Ostfeld et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

It's a myth that protection against disease is a strong and general service of biodiversity conservation: Response to Ostfeld and Keesing

(2013) Kevin D. Lafferty et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Species richness and species identity effects on occurrence of foliar fungal pathogens in a tree diversity experiment

(2013) Lydia Hantsch et al.   Ecosphere

Species diversity reduces parasite infection through cross-generational effects on host abundance

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

Parasite transmission in complex communities: Predators and alternative hosts alter pathogenic infections in amphibians

(2012) Sarah A. Orlofske et al.   ECOLOGY

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

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

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

Biodiversity loss decreases parasite diversity: theory and patterns

(2012) K. D. Lafferty   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Bacterial Community Shift in Treated Periodontitis Patients Revealed by Ion Torrent 16S rRNA Gene Amplicon Sequencing

(2012) Sebastian Jünemann et al.   PLoS One

Parasite diversity and coinfection determine pathogen infection success and host fitness

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

Microbial diversity determines the invasion of soil by a bacterial pathogen

(2012) J. D. van Elsas et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Application of Ecological Theory Toward an Understanding of the Human Microbiome

(2012) E. K. Costello et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

Disease Ecology, Biodiversity, and the Latitudinal Gradient in Income

(2012) Matthew H. Bonds et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

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

The roles of mosquito and bird communities on the prevalence of West Nile virus in urban wetland and residential habitats

(2012) Brian J. Johnson et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

The functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems

(2011) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Biogeographic and Ecological Regulation of Disease: Prevalence of Sin Nombre Virus in Island Mice Is Related to Island Area, Precipitation, and Predator Richness

(2011) John L. Orrock et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Effects of Host Diversity on Infectious Disease

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

Fine-Scale Variation in Vector Host Use and Force of Infection Drive Localized Patterns of West Nile Virus Transmission

(2011) Gabriel L. Hamer et al.   PLoS One

A dilution effect in the emerging amphibian pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

(2011) C. L. Searle et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Impact of the experimental removal of lizards on Lyme disease risk

(2011) A. Swei et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

(2011) James A. Estes et al.   SCIENCE

The Effect of Host Genetic Diversity on Disease Spread

(2010) Curtis M. Lively   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Towards an assessment of multiple ecosystem processes and services via functional traits

(2010) Francesco de Bello et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Does plant diversity benefit agroecosystems? A synthetic review

(2010) Deborah K. Letourneau et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Biology, chance, or history? The predictable reassembly of temperate grassland communities

(2010) Jana S. Petermann et al.   ECOLOGY

A structured and dynamic framework to advance traits-based theory and prediction in ecology

(2010) Colleen T. Webb et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

Ecological determinants of American crow mortality due to West Nile virus during its North American sweep

(2010) Walter D. Koenig et al.   OECOLOGIA

Global drivers of human pathogen richness and prevalence

(2010) R. R. Dunn et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Parasite and host assemblages: embracing the reality will improve our knowledge of parasite transmission and virulence

(2010) T. Rigaud et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

When parasites become prey: ecological and epidemiological significance of eating parasites

(2010) Pieter T.J. Johnson et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Associational Resistance and Associational Susceptibility: Having Right or Wrong Neighbors

(2009) Pedro Barbosa et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Consumers indirectly increase infection risk in grassland food webs

(2009) E. T. Borer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Functionally diverse reef-fish communities ameliorate coral disease

(2009) L. J. Raymundo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

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

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

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

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

(2008) Brian F. Allan et al.   OECOLOGIA

Avian host community structure and prevalence of West Nile virus in Chicago, Illinois

(2008) Scott R. Loss et al.   OECOLOGIA

Ambient fauna impairs parasite transmission in a marine parasite-host system

(2008) D. W. THIELTGES et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Functional consequences of realistic biodiversity changes in a marine ecosystem

(2008) M. E. S. Bracken et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA