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

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

Ecosystem dynamics, biological diversity and emerging infectious diseases

(2011) Benjamin Roche et al.   COMPTES RENDUS BIOLOGIES

Pathogen Pressure Puts Immune Defense into Perspective

(2011) N. P. C. Horrocks et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

A modified matrix model to describe the seasonal population ecology of the European tick Ixodes ricinus

(2011) Andrew D. M. Dobson et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Modelling the effects of recent changes in climate, host density and acaricide treatments on population dynamics of Ixodes ricinus in the UK

(2011) Andrew D. M. Dobson et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Microclimate and the Zoonotic Cycle of Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus in Switzerland

(2011) C. Burri et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY

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

How Predation and Landscape Fragmentation Affect Vole Population Dynamics

(2011) Trine Dalkvist et al.   PLoS One

Impact of the experimental removal of lizards on Lyme disease risk

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

Hantavirus outbreak in Western Europe: reservoir host infection dynamics related to human disease patterns

(2010) K. TERSAGO et al.   EPIDEMIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Epidemiology of squirrelpox virus in grey squirrels in the UK

(2010) C. M. BRUEMMER et al.   EPIDEMIOLOGY AND INFECTION

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

Diversity, decoys and the dilution effect: how ecological communities affect disease risk

(2010) P. T. J. Johnson et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Genetic evidence for the presence of two distinct hantaviruses associated with Apodemus mice in Croatia and analysis of local strains

(2010) Angelina Plyusnina et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY

The dilution effect of the domestic animal population on the transmission of P. vivax malaria

(2010) Kyeongah Nah et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

UN body will assess ecosystems and biodiversity

(2010) Emma Marris   NATURE

Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases

(2010) Felicia Keesing et al.   NATURE

Spinosad as an effective larvicide for control of Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti, vectors of dengue in southern Mexico

(2010) Carlos F Marina et al.   PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

Invasive honeysuckle eradication reduces tick-borne disease risk by altering host dynamics

(2010) B. F. Allan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Temporal Variation in Individual Factors Associated with Hantavirus Infection in Bank Voles During an Epizootic: Implications for Puumala Virus Transmission Dynamics

(2010) Katrien Tersago et al.   VECTOR-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES

The Intergovernmental science-policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: moving a step closer to an IPCC-like mechanism for biodiversity

(2010) Anne Larigauderie et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Biodiversity Loss Affects Global Disease Ecology

(2009) Montira J. Pongsiri et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Managing Japanese Barberry (Ranunculales: Berberidaceae) Infestations Reduces Blacklegged Tick (Acari: Ixodidae) Abundance and Infection Prevalence WithBorrelia burgdorferi(Spirochaetales: Spirochaetaceae)

(2009) Scott C. Williams et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Host-parasite interactions and competition between tubificid species in a benthic community

(2009) L. C. STEINBACH ELWELL et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Diversity Cascades and Malaria Vectors

(2009) John C. Carlson et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Managing the health effects of climate change

(2009) Anthony Costello et al.   LANCET

Forest Structure and Roe Deer Abundance Predict Tick-Borne Encephalitis Risk in Italy

(2009) Annapaola Rizzoli et al.   PLoS One

Experimental Evidence for Reduced Rodent Diversity Causing Increased Hantavirus Prevalence

(2009) Gerardo Suzán et al.   PLoS One

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

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

Reactive oxygen species as universal constraints in life-history evolution

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

Hosts as ecological traps for the vector of Lyme disease

(2009) F. Keesing 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

IMPACT OF HOST COMMUNITY COMPOSITION ON LYME DISEASE RISK

(2008) Kathleen LoGiudice et al.   ECOLOGY

MULTIPLE CAUSES OF VARIABLE TICK BURDENS ON SMALL-MAMMAL HOSTS

(2008) Jesse L. Brunner et al.   ECOLOGY

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

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

Hantavirus disease (nephropathia epidemica) in Belgium: effects of tree seed production and climate

(2008) K. TERSAGO et al.   EPIDEMIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Strategies to reduce browse damage on eastern white pine (Pinus strobus) in southern New England, USA

(2008) Jeffrey S. Ward et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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

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

Epidemiological considerations of rodent community composition in fragmented landscapes in Panama

(2008) Gerardo Suzán et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Exotic Grass Invasion Reduces Survival of Amblyomma americanum and Dermacentor variabilis Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae)

(2008) David J. Civitello et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Global warming and malaria: knowing the horse before hitching the cart

(2008) Paul Reiter   MALARIA JOURNAL

Global trends in emerging infectious diseases

(2008) Kate E. Jones et al.   NATURE

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

Effect of host populations on the intensity of ticks and the prevalence of tick-borne pathogens: how to interpret the results of deer exclosure experiments

(2008) A. PUGLIESE et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Increased Avian Diversity Is Associated with Lower Incidence of Human West Nile Infection: Observation of the Dilution Effect

(2008) John P. Swaddle et al.   PLoS One

Population, Environmental, and Community Effects on Local Bank Vole (Myodes glareolus) Puumala Virus Infection in an Area with Low Human Incidence

(2008) K. Tersago et al.   VECTOR-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES

Conspicuous impacts of inconspicuous hosts on the Lyme disease epidemic

(2007) D. Brisson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES