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

Rapid evolution rescues hosts from competition and disease but—despite a dilution effect—increases the density of infected hosts

(2017) Alexander T. Strauss et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

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

Success, failure and ambiguity of the dilution effect among competitors

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

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

lavaan: AnRPackage for Structural Equation Modeling

(2015) Yves Rosseel   Journal of Statistical Software

lavaan.survey: AnRPackage for Complex Survey Analysis of Structural Equation Models

(2015) Daniel Oberski   Journal of Statistical Software

Host Density and Competency Determine the Effects of Host Diversity on Trematode Parasite Infection

(2014) Jeremy M. Wojdak et al.   PLoS One

Damped long-term host-parasite Red Queen coevolutionary dynamics: a reflection of dilution effects?

(2013) Ellen Decaestecker et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Does life history mediate changing disease risk when communities disassemble?

(2013) Maxwell B. Joseph 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

Biodiversity decreases disease through predictable changes in host community competence

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

A power–efficiency trade-off in resource use alters epidemiological relationships

(2012) Spencer R. Hall et al.   ECOLOGY

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

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

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

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

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

REVERSE EVOLUTION: SELECTION AGAINST COSTLY RESISTANCE IN DISEASE-FREE MICROCOSM POPULATIONS OF PARAMECIUM CAUDATUM

(2011) Alison B. Duncan et al.   EVOLUTION

Variation in Resource Acquisition and Use among Host Clones Creates Key Epidemiological Trade‐Offs

(2010) Spencer R. Hall et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Why Are Daphnia in Some Lakes Sicker? Disease Ecology, Habitat Structure, and the Plankton

(2010) Spencer R. Hall et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Rapid evolution as a possible constraint on emerging infectious diseases

(2010) RACHEL M. PENCZYKOWSKI et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

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

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

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

(2009) Spencer R. Hall et al.   ECOLOGY

Sin Nombre Virus and Rodent Species Diversity: A Test of the Dilution and Amplification Hypotheses

(2009) Christine A. Clay et al.   PLoS One

Community diversity reduces Schistosoma mansoni transmission, host pathology and human infection risk

(2009) P. T.J Johnson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Biodiversity and Lyme disease: Dilution or amplification?

(2009) N.H. Ogden et al.   Epidemics

Invaders interfere with native parasite–host interactions

(2008) David W. Thieltges et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS