Infectious disease agents mediate interaction in food webs and ecosystems

Special Issue Oceans and Humans Health: The Ecology of Marine Opportunists

(2013) Colleen A. Burge et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Parasites Affect Food Web Structure Primarily through Increased Diversity and Complexity

(2013) Jennifer A. Dunne et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Parasitized Grouse are More Vulnerable to Predation as Revealed by a Dog-Assisted Hunting Study

(2012) Marja Isomursu et al.   ANNALES ZOOLOGICI FENNICI

Nematomorph parasites indirectly alter the food web and ecosystem function of streams through behavioural manipulation of their cricket hosts

(2012) Takuya Sato et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Diverse effects of parasites in ecosystems: linking interdependent processes

(2012) Melanie J Hatcher et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Emerging fungal threats to animal, plant and ecosystem health

(2012) Matthew C. Fisher et al.   NATURE

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

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

Flea Diversity as an Element for Persistence of Plague Bacteria in an East African Plague Focus

(2012) Rebecca J. Eisen et al.   PLoS One

Assessing the impact of feline immunodeficiency virus and bovine tuberculosis co-infection in African lions

(2012) M. Maas et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Context-dependent symbioses and their potential roles in wildlife diseases

(2012) J. H. Daskin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ecological Context Influences Epidemic Size and Parasite-Driven Evolution

(2012) M. A. Duffy et al.   SCIENCE

Unhealthy herds: indirect effects of predators enhance two drivers of disease spread

(2011) Meghan A. Duffy et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Site Selection and Foraging in the Eresid Spider Stegodyphus tentoriicola

(2011) Jasmin Ruch et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT BEHAVIOR

Dynamics of the plague-wildlife-human system in Central Asia are controlled by two epidemiological thresholds

(2011) N. I. Samia et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Global Perspective on Hantavirus Ecology, Epidemiology, and Disease

(2010) C. B. Jonsson et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS

Biomass transformation webs provide a unified approach to consumer-resource modelling

(2010) Wayne M. Getz   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

Loss of pathogens in threatened plant species

(2010) Amanda K. Gibson et al.   OIKOS

Species Interactions in a Parasite Community Drive Infection Risk in a Wildlife Population

(2010) Sandra Telfer et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

Enzootic Plague Reduces Black-Footed Ferret (Mustela nigripes) Survival in Montana

(2010) Marc R. Matchett et al.   VECTOR-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES

Modelling Disease Introduction as Biological Control of Invasive Predators to Preserve Endangered Prey

(2009) Nuno M. Oliveira et al.   BULLETIN OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY

Infectious food webs

(2009) ANDREW P. BECKERMAN et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Food web topology and parasites in the pelagic zone of a subarctic lake

(2009) Per-Arne Amundsen et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Small Estuarine Fishes Feed on Large Trematode Cercariae: Lab and Field Investigations

(2009) Amber T. Kaplan et al.   JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY

Parasitism as a determinant of community structure on intertidal flats

(2009) Kim N. Mouritsen et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Viruses manipulate the marine environment

(2009) Forest Rohwer et al.   NATURE

The sixth mass coextinction: are most endangered species parasites and mutualists?

(2009) R. R. Dunn 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

Epidemic Dynamics at the Human-Animal Interface

(2009) J. O. Lloyd-Smith et al.   SCIENCE

Disease and the Dynamics of Food Webs

(2009) Wayne M. Getz   PLOS BIOLOGY

A Disease-Mediated Trophic Cascade in the Serengeti and its Implications for Ecosystem C

(2009) Ricardo M. Holdo et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Relating increasing hantavirus incidences to the changing climate: the mast connection

(2009) Jan Clement et al.   International Journal of Health Geographics

INTERACTIONS BETWEEN MACROPARASITES AND MICROPARASITES DRIVE INFECTION PATTERNS IN FREE-RANGING AFRICAN BUFFALO

(2008) Anna E. Jolles et al.   ECOLOGY

Parasites in food webs: the ultimate missing links

(2008) Kevin D. Lafferty et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Dynamics of a multihost pathogen in a carnivore community

(2008) M. E. Craft et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Ecosystem energetic implications of parasite and free-living biomass in three estuaries

(2008) Armand M. Kuris et al.   NATURE

The abundance threshold for plague as a critical percolation phenomenon

(2008) S. Davis et al.   NATURE

Size-dependent pattern of metacercariae accumulation in Macomona liliana: the threshold for infection in a dead-end host

(2008) Tommy L. F. Leung et al.   PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH

Climate Extremes Promote Fatal Co-Infections during Canine Distemper Epidemics in African Lions

(2008) Linda Munson et al.   PLoS One

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

Antagonistic selection from predators and pathogens alters food-web structure

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

Homage to Linnaeus: How many parasites? How many hosts?

(2008) A. Dobson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Poor condition and infection: a vicious circle in natural populations

(2008) P. M Beldomenico et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Including parasites in food webs

(2008) James E. Byers   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Parasite effects on isopod feeding rates can alter the host’s functional role in a natural stream ecosystem

(2007) Alexander D. Hernandez et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY