A5057383073- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Marine animal studies overview
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Marine and fisheries research
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
- Bird parasitology and diseases
- Vector-borne infectious diseases
- Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Parasites and Host Interactions
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Helminth infection and control
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Underwater Acoustics Research
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Polar Research and Ecology
- Microbial infections and disease research
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
Mississippi State University
2024-2025
University of Massachusetts Amherst
2023-2024
University of Tasmania
2016-2023
Australian Antarctic Division
2019-2022
Micromammals have historically been recognized as highly contentious species in terms of the maintenance and transmission zoonotic pathogens to humans. Limited information is currently available on epidemiology potential public health significance intestinal eukaryotes wild micromammals. We examined 490 faecal samples, grouped into 155 pools, obtained from 11 micromammal captured Spanish provinces for presence DNA Cryptosporidium spp., Giardia duodenalis, Enterocytozoon bieneusi Blastocystis...
Antarctic polynyas are persistent open water areas which enable early and large seasonal phytoplankton blooms. This high primary productivity, boosted by iron supply from coastal glaciers, attracts organisms all trophic levels to form a rich diverse community. How the ecological benefit of polynya productivity is translated highest remains poorly resolved. We studied 119 southern elephant seals feeding over shelf demonstrated that: (i) 96% foraging here used polynyas, with individuals...
Emerging infectious diseases with zoonotic potential often have complex socioecological dynamics and limited ecological data, requiring integration of epidemiological modeling surveillance. Although our understanding SARS-CoV-2 has advanced considerably since its detection in late 2019, the factors influencing introduction transmission wildlife hosts, particularly white-tailed deer ( Odocoileus virginianus ), remain poorly understood. We use a Susceptible-Infected-Recovered-Susceptible model...
Coxiella burnetii, the causal agent of human Q fever and animal Coxiellosis, is a zoonotic infectious bacterium with complex ecology that results from its ability to replicate in multiple (in)vertebrate host species. Spain notifies highest number cases ECDC annually wildlife plays relevant role C. burnetii country. However, whole picture hosts incomplete, so this study seeks better understand micromammals Spleen samples 816 10 species 130 vaginal swabs Microtus arvalis were analysed by qPCR...
Contemporary wildlife disease management is complex because managers need to respond a wide range of stakeholders, multiple uncertainties, and difficult trade-offs that characterize the interconnected challenges today. Despite general acknowledgment these complexities, managing tends be framed as scientific problem, in which major challenge lack knowledge. The multifactorial process decision-making collapsed into endeavor reduce uncertainty. As result, contemporary may oversimplified, rely...
One Health aims to achieve optimal health outcomes for people, animals, plants, and shared environments. We describe a multisector effort understand mitigate SARS-CoV-2 transmission risk humans via the spread among between captive wild white-tailed deer. first framed problem with three governance sectors that manage deer, deer populations, public health. The framing included identifying fundamental objectives, causal chains transmission, management actions. then developed dynamic model...
Abstract Partitioning resources is a key mechanism for avoiding intraspecific competition and maximizing individual energy gain. However, in sexually dimorphic species it difficult to discern if partitioning due or the different resource needs of morphologically distinct individuals. In highly southern elephant seal, there are intersexual differences habitat use; at Iles Kerguelen, males predominantly use shelf waters, while females deeper oceanic waters. There equally marked intrasexual...
Abstract Infectious diseases are a major threat for biodiversity conservation and can exert strong influence on wildlife population dynamics. Understanding the mechanisms driving infection rates epidemic outcomes requires empirical data evolutionary trajectory of pathogens host selective processes. Phylodynamics is robust framework to understand interaction pathogen processes with epidemiological dynamics, providing powerful tool evaluate disease control strategies. Tasmanian devils have...
Abstract Foraging behaviour of marine predators inferred from the analysis horizontal or vertical movements commonly lack quantitative information about foraging success. Several mammal species are known to perform dives where they passively drift in water column, termed “drift” dives. The rate is determined by animal’s buoyancy, which can be used make inference regarding body condition. Long term dive records retrieved via satellite uplink often summarized before transmission. This loss...
Abstract Emerging infectious diseases with zoonotic potential often have complex socioecological dynamics and limited ecological data, requiring integration of epidemiological modeling surveillance. Although our understanding SARS-CoV-2 has advanced considerably since its detection in late 2019, the factors influencing introduction transmission wildlife hosts, particularly white-tailed deer ( Odocoileus virginianus ), remain poorly understood. We use a...
We studied the movements of little egrets Egretta garzetta from breeding colonies in northern Spanish Atlantic estuaries using sighting data colour-ringed birds. Data on 304 resightings 95 out 457 ringed as chicks two southern Bay Biscay were analysed. Most (68.9%) observed less than 50 km their natal and thus exhibited low dispersal, supporting view that these birds belong to a resident population along coasts Biscay. Nearly all (95.5%) occurred across an east-west axis corresponding coast...
Abstract One Health helps achieve optimal health outcomes for people, animals, plants, and their shared environments. We describe a multidisciplinary effort to better understand mitigate SARS-CoV-2 spread in white-tailed deer across sectors. first framed the risk problem with three governance sectors that manage captive wild human public health. The framing included objectives each sector, interactions facilitate human-to-deer deer-to-deer transmission, alternatives intended reduce risk....