A5064675633- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
- Parasites and Host Interactions
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Helminth infection and control
- Marine and fisheries research
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Crustacean biology and ecology
- Global Health and Epidemiology
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Plant and animal studies
- Marine animal studies overview
University of Washington
2016-2025
Seattle University
2016-2019
University of Michigan
2014-2017
Google (United States)
2017
Pacific University
2010-2016
University of Colorado Boulder
2014-2016
Society of Actuaries
2014-2016
Michigan United
2016
Stanford University
2010-2015
Dartmouth College
2007
Parasites often play an important role in modifying the physiology and behavior of their hosts may, consequently, mediate influence have on other components ecological community. Along northern Atlantic coast North America, dominant herbivorous snail Littorina littorea structures rocky intertidal communities through strong grazing pressure is frequently parasitized by digenean trematode Cryptocotyle lingua. We hypothesized that effects parasitism host would induce behavioral changes L....
Control of human infectious disease has been promoted as a valuable ecosystem service arising from the conservation biodiversity. There are two commonly discussed mechanisms by which biodiversity loss could increase rates in landscape. First, competitors or predators facilitate an abundance competent reservoir hosts. Second, disproportionately affect non‐competent, less hosts, would otherwise interfere with pathogen transmission to populations by, for example, wasting bites infected vectors....
Background Despite control efforts, human schistosomiasis remains prevalent throughout Africa, Asia, and South America. The global burden has changed little since the new anthelmintic drug, praziquantel, promised widespread control. Methodology We evaluated large-scale attempts over past century across globe by identifying factors that predict program success: snail (e.g., molluscicides or biological control), mass drug administrations (MDA) with a combined strategy using both. For data, we...
Long-term data allow ecologists to assess trajectories of population abundance. Without this context, it is impossible know whether a taxon thriving or declining extinction. For parasites wildlife, there are few long-term data—a gap that creates an impediment managing parasite biodiversity and infectious threats in changing world. We produced century-scale time series metazoan abundance used test parasitism Puget Sound, United States, and, if so, why. performed parasitological dissection...
Infectious disease burdens vary from country to and year due ecological economic drivers. Recently, Murray et al. (Murray CJ al 2012 Lancet380, 2197-2223. (doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61689-4)) estimated country-level morbidity mortality associated with a variety of factors, including infectious diseases, for the years 1990 2010. Unlike other databases that report prevalence or count outbreaks per country, health impacts in per-person disability-adjusted life (DALYs), allowing comparison...
Despite a century of research into the factors that generate and maintain biodiversity, we know remarkably little about drivers parasite diversity. To identify mechanisms governing diversity, combined surveys 8100 amphibian hosts with an outdoor experiment tested theory developed for free-living species. Our analyses revealed diversity increased consistently host due to habitat (i.e. host) heterogeneity, secondary contributions from colonisation abundance. Results experiment, in which was...
Dams have long been associated with elevated burdens of human schistosomiasis, but how dams increase disease is not always clear, in part because many ecological and socio-economic effects. A recent hypothesis argues that block reproduction the migratory river prawns eat snail hosts schistosomiasis. In Senegal River Basin, there evidence prawn populations declined schistosomiasis increased after completion Diama Dam. Restoring to a water-access site upstream dam reduced density reinfection...
Recently, the World Health Organization recognized that efforts to interrupt schistosomiasis transmission through mass drug administration have been ineffective in some regions; one of their new recommended strategies for global control emphasizes targeting freshwater snails transmit schistosome parasites. We sought identify robust indicators would enable precision these snails. At site world’s largest recorded epidemic—the Lower Senegal River Basin Senegal—intensive sampling revealed...
Despite the ubiquity and ecological importance of parasites, relatively few studies have assessed their response to anthropogenic environmental change. Heuristic models predicted both increases decreases in parasite abundance human disturbance, with empirical support for both. However, most focus on one or a selected species. Here, we assess parasites seven species coral reef fishes collected from three fished unfished islands Line Islands archipelago central equatorial Pacific. Because...
Abstract Invasions by shell-boring polychaetes such as Polydora websteri Hartman have resulted in the collapse of oyster aquaculture industries Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii. These worms burrow into bivalve shells, creating unsightly mud blisters that are unappealing to consumers and, when nicked during shucking, release detritus can foul meats. Recent findings on shells Pacific oysters ( Crassostrea gigas Thunberg) Washington State suggest a new spionid polychaete outbreak. To...
Many disease ecologists and conservation biologists believe that the world is wormier than it used to be-that is, parasites are increasing in abundance through time. This argument intuitively appealing. Ecologists typically see parasitic infections, their association with disease, as a negative endpoint, accustomed attributing outcomes human interference environment, so slots neatly into our worldview habitat destruction, biodiversity loss climate change should have collateral consequence of...