Non-random biodiversity loss underlies predictable increases in viral disease prevalence

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

Life-history constraints in grassland plant species: a growth-defence trade-off is the norm

(2013) Eric M. Lind et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

Commentary on ‘A Candide response to Panglossian accusations by Randolph and Dobson: biodiversity buffers disease’ by Dr R. Ostfeld (Parasitology 2013, in press)

(2013)   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

The Impact of Community Organization on Vector-Borne Pathogens

(2012) Benjamin Roche et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The influence of host diversity and composition on epidemiological patterns at multiple spatial scales

(2012) Sean M. Moore et al.   ECOLOGY

Realistic losses of rare species disproportionately impact higher trophic levels

(2012) Matthew E. S. Bracken et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Realistic plant species losses reduce invasion resistance in a California serpentine grassland

(2012) Paul C. Selmants et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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

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

The Functions of Biological Diversity in an Age of Extinction

(2012) S. Naeem et al.   SCIENCE

On the statistical mechanics of species abundance distributions

(2012) Michael G. Bowler et al.   THEORETICAL POPULATION BIOLOGY

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

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

Effect of Biodiversity Changes in Disease Risk: Exploring Disease Emergence in a Plant-Virus System

(2012) Israel Pagán et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Bridging Taxonomic and Disciplinary Divides in Infectious Disease

(2011) Elizabeth T. Borer et al.   EcoHealth

Forest species diversity reduces disease risk in a generalist plant pathogen invasion

(2011) Sarah E. Haas et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

From superspreaders to disease hotspots: linking transmission across hosts and space

(2011) Sara H Paull et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?

(2011) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   NATURE

Viral diversity and prevalence gradients in North American Pacific Coast grasslands

(2010) Eric W. Seabloom et al.   ECOLOGY

Local context drives infection of grasses by vector-borne generalist viruses

(2010) Elizabeth T. Borer et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Host physiological phenotype explains pathogen reservoir potential

(2010) James Patrick Cronin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Disease ecology meets ecological immunology: understanding the links between organismal immunity and infection dynamics in natural populations

(2010) Dana M. Hawley et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

A null model of community disassembly effects on vector-borne disease risk

(2010) Christopher P. Brooks et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases

(2010) Felicia Keesing et al.   NATURE

Plant community diversity influences vector behaviour and Barley yellow dwarf virus population structure

(2010) G. S. Hall et al.   PLANT PATHOLOGY

Aphid fecundity and grassland invasion: Invader life history is the key

(2009) Elizabeth T. Borer et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

A meta-analysis of trait differences between invasive and non-invasive plant species

(2009) Mark van Kleunen et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A safe operating space for humanity

(2009) Johan Rockström et al.   NATURE

Variation in Tomato spotted wilt virus Titer in Frankliniella occidentalis and Its Association with Frequency of Transmission

(2009) Dorith Rotenberg et al.   PHYTOPATHOLOGY

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

Reactive oxygen species as universal constraints in life-history evolution

(2009) D. K. Dowling et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Response to comment by Loot et al.

(2009) Pablo M. Beldomenico et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Constitutive immune defences correlate with life-history variables in tropical birds

(2008) K. A. Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

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

(2008) Brian F. Allan et al.   OECOLOGIA