A5005507278- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Plant and animal studies
- Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Vector-borne infectious diseases
- Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Communication and COVID-19 Impact
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Infectious Diseases and Mycology
- Turtle Biology and Conservation
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
2015-2024
Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México
2021-2023
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
2014-2019
Université de Montpellier
2016-2019
Maladies Infectieuses et Vecteurs: Écologie, Génétique, Évolution et Contrôle
2014-2019
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2014-2017
Agropolis International
2016-2017
Future Earth
2017
Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry Applications
2012-2013
University of Bath
2009-2010
Despite considerable current interest in biological invasions, the common life-history characteristics of successful invaders remain elusive. The widely held hypothesis that have high reproductive rates has received little empirical support; however, alternative possibilities are seldom considered. Combining a global comparative analysis avian introductions (>2700 events) with demographic models and phylogenetic methods, we show although rapid population growth may be advantageous during...
Abstract The potential for disease transmission at the interface of wildlife, domestic animals and humans has become a major concern public health conservation biology. Research in this subject is commonly conducted local scales while regional context neglected. We argue that prevalence infection levels influenced by three mechanisms occurring landscape level metacommunity context. First, (1) dispersal, colonization, extinction pathogens, reservoir or vector hosts, nonreservoir may be due to...
Abstract Aim Parental care improves the survival of offspring and therefore has a major impact on reproductive success. It is increasingly recognized that coordinated biparental necessary to ensure in hostile environments, but little known about influence environmental fluctuations parental cooperation. Assessing impacts stochasticity, however, essential for understanding how populations will respond climate change associated increasing frequencies extreme weather events. Here we investigate...
Land-use change has a direct impact on species survival and reproduction, altering their spatio-temporal distributions. It acts as selective force that favours the abundance diversity of reservoir hosts affects host–pathogen dynamics prevalence. This led to land-use being significant driver infectious diseases emergence. Here, we predict presence rodent taxa map zoonotic hazard (potential sources harm) from rodent-borne in short long term (2025 2050). The study considers three different...
Nonlethal disturbance can impose fitness costs, particularly during sensitive life history stages such as reproduction. Prey animals are thus expected to assess the costs and benefits of expressing antipredator behavior in different circumstances respond optimally according perceived risk predation. One prediction this hypothesis is that response nonlethal should be elevated when predation high, although few studies have tested with respect distribution actual predators nature. We used...
Zoonotic diseases transmitted by wildlife affect biological conservation, public and animal health, the economy. Current research efforts are aimed at finding pathogens a given location. However, meta-analytical approach may reveal emerging macroecological patterns in host-pathogen relationship different temporal spatial scales. West Nile virus (WNV) is pathogen with worldwide detrimental impacts on bird populations. To understand driving WNV infection, we to recognize unknown competent...
High-profile epidemics such as Ebola, avian influenza, and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) repeatedly thrust infectious diseases into the limelight. Because emergence of involves so many factors, need for interdisciplinary approaches to studying emerging infections, particularly those originating from animals (i.e., zoonoses), is frequently discussed [1–4]. However, effective integration across disciplines challenging in practice. Ecological ideas, example, are rarely considered...
Migratory behavior incurs energetic costs that may influence the time and energy available for reproduction including territory establishment, courtship, pair formation, incubation, brood care. Conversely formation parental care leave less migration other nonbreeding behaviors. Therefore, natural selection favoring migratory breeding system evolution vice versa. We used phylogenetic comparative methods to investigate relationships between distance wide diversity of systems in shorebirds...
Understanding the ecology of environmentally acquired and multi‐host pathogens affecting humans wildlife has been elusive in part because fluctuations abundance host pathogen species may feed back onto transmission. Complexity pathogen‐host dynamics emerges from processes driving local extinction pathogen, its hosts non‐hosts. While entail losses pathogen–host interactions decrease proportion infected by a (prevalence), some studies suggest opposite pattern. Niche‐based extinction, based on...
Abstract Natural selection is considered a major force shaping brain size evolution in vertebrates, whereas the influence of sexual remains controversial. On one hand, could promote enlargement by enhancing cognitive skills needed to compete for mates. other favour reduction due trade‐offs between investing tissue and sexually selected traits. These opposed predictions are mirrored contradictory relationships proxies relative body size. Here, we report phylogenetic comparative analysis that...
Background An understanding of the factors driving distribution pathogens is useful in preventing disease. Often we achieve this at a local microhabitat scale; however larger scale processes are often neglected. This can result misleading inferences about pathogen, inhibiting our ability to manage One such disease Buruli ulcer, an emerging neglected tropical afflicting many thousands Africa, caused by environmental pathogen Mycobacterium ulcerans. Herein, aim describe landscape process...
The rate at which a young bird grows is highly diverse across taxa. We investigated the influences of ecological variables on growth rates shorebirds, gulls and their allies (order Charadriiformes) using comparative analyses 68 species. three hypotheses: (1) exposure to cold temperatures results in reduced due increased energy expenditure required for thermoregulation, (2) fast allow offspring complete development habitats with short periods fair conditions, (3) parental feeding allows grow...
Billions of genomic sequences and records species occurrence are available in public repositories (e.g. National Center for Biotechnology Information, NCBI the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, GBIF). By implementing analytical tools from different scientific disciplines, data mining these databases can aid global surveillance zoonotic pathogens that circulate among wildlife. We illustrate this by investigating Hantavirus–rodent system Americas, i.e. New World Hantaviruses (NWH)....
Abstract The broad distribution of macroparasites and their thriving populations are matters health economic concern. Macroparasites cause damage both directly through feeding habits, which impact host fitness, indirectly the transmission various infectious diseases relevance to human domestic animal wildlife conservation. Because impacts on risk disease related abundance, understanding drivers macroparasite burden is relevance. Various traits environmental factors have been associated with...
What leads to classically recognized patterns of biodiversity remains an open and contested question. It unknown if observed are generated by biological or non‐biological mechanisms, we should expect the emerge in systems. Here, employ analogies between GNU/Linux operating systems (distros), a system, biodiversity, look for number well‐established ecological evolutionary Linux universe. We demonstrate that universe generally match macroecological patterns. Particularly, distro commonness...
Hantaviruses (Family: Hantaviridae; genus: Orthohantavirus) and their associated human diseases occur globally differ according to geographic distribution. The structure of small mammal assemblages phylogenetic relatedness among host species are suggested as strong drivers for the maintenance spread hantavirus infections in mammals. We developed predictive models infection prevalence rodent using defined ecological correlates from our current knowledge hantavirus-host distributions provide...
• Amphibian-specific parasites with complex life cycles are sensitive to environmental disturbance. Urbanization impacts the richness and kind of interactions between host parasites. Non-obligatory in amphibians emerged urban area.
Amphibian populations are globally declining at an alarming rate, and infectious diseases among the main causes of their decline. Two micro-parasites, fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) virus Ranavirus (RV) have caused mass mortality amphibians population declines. Other, less understood epizootics by macro-parasites, such as Trombiculoidea chiggers. Infection with chiggers can affect frog behavior survival. Furthermore, synergistic effects co-infection both macro micro-parasites may...