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A common scaling rule for abundance, energetics, and production of parasitic and free-living species

scientific article

A food web including parasites for kelp forests of the Santa Barbara Channel, California ⬇️

journal article from 'Scientific Data' published in 2021

A global parasite conservation plan

scientific article published in October 2020

A lack of crowding? Body size does not decrease with density for two behavior-manipulating parasites

scientific article published on 15 June 2014

A life cycle database for parasitic acanthocephalans, cestodes, and nematodes

scientific article published on 16 December 2016

A nematomorph parasite explains variation in terrestrial subsidies to trout streams in Japan ⬇️

journal article from 'Oikos' published in 2011

A strong colonizer rules the trematode guild in an intertidal snail host

scientific article published on 15 April 2019

Abalone farm discharges the withering syndrome pathogen into the wild

scientific article published on 06 December 2013

Acceptance of the 2009 Henry Baldwin Ward Medal: the accidental parasitologist

scientific article published in December 2009

Activities and preliminary results of nearshore benthic habitat mapping in southern California, 1998

scientific article published in 2000

Altered Behavior of Parasitized Killifish Increases Susceptibility to Predation by Bird Final Hosts

scientific article

An efficient strategy to estimate intensity and prevalence: sampling metacercariae in fishes.

scientific article published in June 2005

An experimental evaluation of host specificity: the role of encounter and compatibility filters for a rhizocephalan parasite of crabs

scientific article published on 20 December 2006

Analysis of larval trematode communities ⬇️

journal article from 'Ecology' published in 1994

Application of ecological criteria in selecting marine reserves and developing reserve networks ⬇️

journal article from 'Ecological Applications' published in 2003

Applying ecological criteria to marine reserve design: A case study from the California Channel Islands ⬇️

journal article from 'Ecological Applications' published in 2003

Are Diseases Increasing in the Ocean?

scientific article published in 2004

At Palmyra Atoll, the fish-community environmental DNA signal changes across habitats but not with tides

scientific article published on 22 May 2020

Biodiversity Loss and Infectious Diseases

scientific article published in 2014

Biodiversity and disease: a synthesis of ecological perspectives on Lyme disease transmission

scientific article

Biodiversity loss decreases parasite diversity: theory and patterns

scientific article

Biological Control of Marine Pests

scientific article (publication date: October 1996)

Birds at a Southern California beach: Seasonality, habitat use and disturbance by human activity ⬇️

journal article from 'Biodiversity and Conservation' published in 2001

Brain cancer mortality rates increase with Toxoplasma gondii seroprevalence in France

scientific article published on 25 January 2012

Broadening the ecology of fear: Non-lethal effects arise from diverse responses to predation and parasitism ⬇️

journal article from 'Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences' published in 2021

Calibrating Environmental DNA Metabarcoding to Conventional Surveys for Measuring Fish Species Richness ⬇️

journal article from 'Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution' published in 2020

Calling for an ecological approach to studying climate change and infectious diseases

scientific article

Can parasites be indicators of free-living diversity? Relationships between species richness and the abundance of larval trematodes and of local benthos and fishes

scientific article

Can the common brain parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, influence human culture?

scientific article published in November 2006

Cascading effects of fishing on Galapagos rocky reef communities ⬇️

journal article from 'Marine Ecology Progress Series' published in 2007

Cascading effects of fishing on Galapagos rocky reef communities: Reanalysis using corrected data ⬇️

journal article from 'Marine Ecology Progress Series' published in 2009

Cat ownership is neither a strong predictor of Toxoplasmagondii infection nor a risk factor for brain cancer

scientific article

Causes of delayed outbreak responses and their impacts on epidemic spread ⬇️

journal article from 'Journal of the Royal Society Interface' published in 2021

Colloquium paper: homage to Linnaeus: how many parasites? How many hosts?

scientific article

Community structure: Larval trematodes in snail hosts ⬇️

journal article from 'Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics' published in 1994

Complementary approaches to diagnosing marine diseases: a union of the modern and the classic.

scientific article

Conflict of interest between a nematode and a trematode in an amphipod host: Test of the "sabotage" hypothesis ⬇️

journal article from 'Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology' published in 2002

Conservation, biodiversity and infectious disease: scientific evidence and policy implications.

scientific article

Densovirus associated with sea-star wasting disease and mass mortality.

scientific article

Dermal denticle assemblages in coral reef sediments correlate with conventional shark surveys

scientific article published on 28 January 2020

Detecting Southern California’s White Sharks With Environmental DNA

article by Kevin D. Lafferty et al published 2 October 2018 in Frontiers in Marine Science

Digenean metacercariae of fishes from the lagoon flats of Palmyra Atoll, Eastern Indo-Pacific.

scientific article published on 5 January 2012

Disease can shape marine ecosystems

scientific article published on 3 February 2020

Disturbance to wintering western snowy plovers ⬇️

journal article from 'Biological Conservation' published in 2001

Diversity increases biomass production for trematode parasites in snails

scientific article published in December 2008

Does biodiversity protect humans against infectious disease?

scientific article

Does biodiversity protect humans against infectious disease? Reply

scientific article

ECOLOGICAL THEORY. A general consumer-resource population model

scientific article

EXPOSING EXTINCTION RISK ANALYSIS TO PATHOGENS: IS DISEASE JUST ANOTHER FORM OF DENSITY DEPENDENCE?

article

Ecological criteria for evaluating candidate sites for marine reserves ⬇️

journal article from 'Ecological Applications' published in 2003

Ecosystem Function and Services of Aquatic Predators in the Anthropocene

scientific article published on 08 March 2019

Ecosystem consequences of fish parasites ⬇️

journal article from 'Journal of Fish Biology' published in 2008

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

scientific article

Editorial: Roles and mechanisms of parasitism in aquatic microbial communities

scientific article published on 12 May 2015

Effects of marine reserves and urchin disease on southern Californian rocky reef communities ⬇️

journal article from 'Marine Ecology Progress Series' published in 2004

Effects of parasitic castration on growth, reproduction and population dynamics of the marine snail Cerithidea californica ⬇️

journal article from 'Marine Ecology Progress Series' published in 1993

Endangered light-footed clapper rail affects parasite community structure in coastal wetlands

scientific article published in September 2007

Environmental change makes robust ecological networks fragile.

scientific article

Erratum: Cascading effects of fishing on Galapagos rocky reef communities (Marine Ecology Progress Series (2007) 343, (77-85)) ⬇️

journal article from 'Marine Ecology Progress Series' published in 2007

Erratum: Effects of marine reserves and urchin disease on southern Californian rocky reef communities (Marine Ecology Progress Series (2004) 279 (129-139)) ⬇️

journal article from 'Marine Ecology Progress Series' published in 2004

Erratum: Parasites and marine invasions (Parasitology (2002) 124 (s141-s143)) ⬇️

journal article from 'Parasitology' published in 2002

Evidence for the role of infectious disease in species extinction and endangerment

scientific article

Evolution of Trophic Transmission in Parasites: Why Add Intermediate Hosts?

scientific article published in August 2003

Extirpation and Recolonization in a Metapopulation of an Endangered Fish, the Tidewater Goby

article

Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Niche and neutral effects of acquired immunity permit coexistence of pneumococcal serotypes

Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Pathogen persistence in the environment and insect-baculovirus interactions: disease-density thresholds, epidemic burnout, and insect outbreaks

scholarly article published 19 March 2012

Faculty of 1000 evaluation for The evolution of drug resistance and the curious orthodoxy of aggressive chemotherapy

Fear of feces? Tradeoffs between disease risk and foraging drive animal activity around raccoon latrines

scholarly article by Sara B. Weinstein et al published 18 January 2018 in Oikos

Fecampia erythrocephala rediscovered: Prevalence and distribution of a parasitoid of the European shore crab, Carcinus maenas ⬇️

journal article from 'Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom' published in 2002

Fish culling reduces tapeworm burden in Arctic charr by increasing parasite mortality rather than by reducing density‐dependent transmission

article

FishPEST: an innovative software suite for fish parasitologists

scientific article published on 25 February 2012

Fishing diseased abalone to promote yield and conservation

scientific article published on March 2016

Fishing for lobsters indirectly increases epidemics in sea urchins ⬇️

journal article from 'Ecological Applications' published in 2004

Fishing out marine parasites? Impacts of fishing on rates of parasitism in the ocean

scientific article

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

scientific article

Food webs and fishing affect parasitism of the sea urchinEucidaris galapagensisin the Galápagos ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 2011

Foraging on prey that are modified by parasites ⬇️

journal article from 'American Naturalist' published in 1992

Geographic Variation in the Diet of Opaleye (Girella nigricans) with Respect to Temperature and Habitat ⬇️

scientific article published on September 21, 2012

Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera, increases faunal diversity through physical engineering.

scientific article published in March 2018

Global Assessment of Schistosomiasis Control Over the Past Century Shows Targeting the Snail Intermediate Host Works Best

scientific article

Global tropical reef fish richness could decline by around half if corals are lost ⬇️

journal article from 'Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences' published in 2021

Good Medicine for Conservation Biology: the Intersection of Epidemiology and Conservation Theory

scholarly article by Kevin D. Lafferty & Leah Gerber published June 2002 in Conservation Biology

Grand challenges for integrated USGS science—A workshop report

article by Karen E. Jenni et al published 2017 in Open-File Report

High parasite diversity in the amphipod Gammarus lacustris in a subarctic lake

scientific article published on 05 October 2020

High prevalence of cestodes in Artemia spp. throughout the annual cycle: relationship with abundance of avian final hosts.

scientific article

Host diversity begets parasite diversity: bird final hosts and trematodes in snail intermediate hosts

scientific article published on 01 May 2005

Host specificity of Sacculina carcini, a potential biological control agent of the introduced European green crab Carcinus maenas in California

How do humans affect wildlife nematodes?

scientific article

How environmental stress affects the impacts of parasites ⬇️

journal article from 'Limnology and Oceanography' published in 1999

How have fisheries affected parasite communities?

scientific article published on 3 March 2014

How large is the hand in the puppet? Ecological and evolutionary factors affecting body mass of 15 trematode parasitic castrators in their snail host ⬇️

journal article from 'Evolutionary Ecology' published in 2009

How should environmental stress affect the population dynamics of disease? ⬇️

journal article from 'Ecology Letters' published in 2003

How to catch a parasite: Parasite Niche Modeler (PaNic) meets Fishbase ⬇️

journal article from 'Ecography' published in 2012

How to identify win–win interventions that benefit human health and conservation ⬇️

journal article from 'Nature Sustainability' published in 2021

How to predict community responses to perturbations in the face of imperfect knowledge and network complexity

scientific article published on 6 November 2013

Human infectious disease burdens decrease with urbanization but not with biodiversity.

scientific article

Improving the ability of a BACI design to detect impacts within a kelp-forest community ⬇️

journal article from 'Ecological Applications' published in 2021

Incidence of adult brain cancers is higher in countries where the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii is common

scientific article published on 27 July 2011

Infection at an ecotone: cross‐system foraging increases satellite parasites but decreases core parasites in raccoons

scientific article published on 19 July 2019

Infectious diseases affect marine fisheries and aquaculture economics

scientific article published on 12 September 2014

Infestation of an introduced host, the European green crab, Carcinus maenas, by a symbiotic nemertean egg predator, Carcinonemertes epialti

scientific article published in June 1996

Introduced species and their missing parasites

scientific article

Introduction of 2011–2012 ASP President Armand M. Kuris

scientific article published on September 4, 2012

Is a healthy ecosystem one that is rich in parasites?

scientific article

It's a myth that protection against disease is a strong and general service of biodiversity conservation: Response to Ostfeld and Keesing

scientific article published on 12 August 2013

Keeping the herds healthy and alert: Implications of predator control for infectious disease ⬇️

journal article from 'Ecology Letters' published in 2003

Local extinction of the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) following rat eradication on Palmyra Atoll

scientific article published in February 2018

Look what the cat dragged in: do parasites contribute to human cultural diversity?

scientific article

Looking where it's hard to see: a case study documenting rare Eucyclogobius newberryi presence in a California lagoon

scientific article published on 22 May 2020

Managing Bay and Estuarine Ecosystems for Multiple Services

Mapping Physiological Suitability Limits for Malaria in Africa Under Climate Change

scientific article

Mapping the Distribution of Malaria: Current Approaches and Future Directions

scholarly article published 30 January 2015

Marine Infectious Disease Ecology ⬇️

journal article from 'Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics' published in 2017

Marine disease impacts, diagnosis, forecasting, management and policy

scientific article published on March 2016

Microbiology. Interacting parasites

scientific article published in October 2010

Modelling crustacean fisheries: effects of parasites on management strategies ⬇️

journal article from 'Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences' published in 1992

Molecular analyses reveal high species diversity of trematodes in a sub-Arctic lake

scientific article

Monogenea of fishes from the lagoon flats of Palmyra Atoll in the Central Pacific.

scientific article published on 2 November 2017

More than a meal… integrating non-feeding interactions into food webs

scientific article

Nearly 400 million people are at higher risk of schistosomiasis because dams block the migration of snail-eating river prawns

scientific article

Nematomorph parasites drive energy flow through a riparian ecosystem ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

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

scientific article published on 15 May 2012

New parasites and predators follow the introduction of two fish species to a subarctic lake: implications for food-web structure and functioning

scientific article

Novel foraging in the swash zone on pacific sand crabs (Emerita analoga, Hippidae) by Mallards ⬇️

journal article from 'Wilson Journal of Ornithology' published in 2013

Ontogenetic dynamics of infection with Diphyllobothrium spp. cestodes in sympatric Arctic charr Salvelinus alpinus (L.) and brown trout Salmo trutta L ⬇️

journal article from 'Hydrobiologia' published in 2016

Optimal temperature for malaria transmission is dramatically lower than previously predicted.

scientific article

Parasite distribution, prevalence, and assemblages of the grass shrimp, palaemonetes pugio, in southwestern Alabama, U.S.A ⬇️

journal article from 'Comparative Parasitology' published in 2011

Parasite transmission in social interacting hosts: monogenean epidemics in guppies

scientific article

Parasites affect food web structure primarily through increased diversity and complexity

scientific article

Parasites as prey in aquatic food webs: Implications for predator infection and parasite transmission ⬇️

journal article from 'Oikos' published in 2013

Parasites dominate food web links

scholarly article

Parasites in Marine Food Webs

scientific article published in 2013

Parasites in food webs: the ultimate missing links

scientific article published on June 2008

Parasites in kelp‐forest food webs increase food‐chain length, complexity, and specialization, but reduce connectance

scientific article published in 2022

Parasites in marine food webs

scientific article published on 3 February 2020

Parasites reduce food web robustness because they are sensitive to secondary extinction as illustrated by an invasive estuarine snail ⬇️

scientific article

Parasitic castration: the evolution and ecology of body snatchers

scientific article

Parasitic copepods (Crustacea, Hexanauplia) on fishes from the lagoon flats of Palmyra Atoll, Central Pacific

scientific article published on 27 March 2019

Parasitic nematodes of marine fishes from Palmyra Atoll, East Indo-Pacific, including a new species of Spinitectus (Nematoda, Cystidicolidae)

scientific article

Parasitism and the Biodiversity-Functioning Relationship

scientific article

Postflood persistence and recolonization of endangered tidewater goby populations ⬇️

journal article from 'North American Journal of Fisheries Management' published in 1999

Precision mapping of snail habitat provides a powerful indicator of human schistosomiasis transmission

scientific article published on 28 October 2019

Predation on the Endangered Tidewater Goby, Eucyclogobius newberryi, by the Introduced African Clawed Frog, Xenopus laevis, with Notes on the Frog's Parasites

scientific article published in August 1997

Predator–prey interactions of terrestrial invertebrates are determined by predator body size and species identity

scientific article published on 21 January 2022

Predicting what helminth parasites a fish species should have using Parasite Co-occurrence Modeler (PaCo).

scientific article published on 27 August 2012

Recent declines of black abalone Haliotis cracherodii on the mainlandcoast of central California ⬇️

journal article from 'Marine Ecology Progress Series' published in 1996

Reduced disease in black abalone following mass mortality: phage therapy and natural selection

scientific article published on 18 March 2014

Reduced transmission of human schistosomiasis after restoration of a native river prawn that preys on the snail intermediate host

scientific article

Reef fishes have higher parasite richness at unfished Palmyra Atoll compared to fished Kiritimati Island

scientific article

Regulation of laboratory populations of snails (Biomphalaria and Bulinus spp.) by river prawns, Macrobrachium spp. (Decapoda, Palaemonidae): implications for control of schistosomiasis

scientific article

Release from Parasites as Natural Enemies: Increased Performance of a Globally Introduced Marine Crab

scholarly article

Restoration of breeding by snowy plovers following protection from disturbance ⬇️

journal article from 'Biodiversity and Conservation' published in 2006

Revisiting Paine's 1966 Sea Star Removal Experiment, the Most-Cited Empirical Article in the American Naturalist

scientific article

Sapronosis: a distinctive type of infectious agent

scientific article

Sea otter health: Challenging a pet hypothesis

scientific article published on 26 June 2015

Sea otters are recolonizing southern California in fits and starts ⬇️

journal article from 'Ecosphere' published in 2014

Sea-level rise, habitat loss, and potential extirpation of a salt marsh specialist bird in urbanized landscapes

scholarly article by Jordan Rosencranz et al published August 2018 in Ecology and Evolution

Seroprevalence of Baylisascaris procyonis Infection among Humans, Santa Barbara County, California, USA, 2014-2016.

scientific article published on August 2017

Shading decreases the abundance of the herbivorous California horn snail, Cerithidea californica

scientific article published in 2012

Southern California and range-wide raccoon gastrointestinal helminth database

scientific article published on 31 July 2019

Species insurance trumps spatial insurance in stabilizing biomass of a marine macroalgal metacommunity

scientific article published on 13 May 2019

Stage structure alters how complexity affects stability of ecological networks

scientific article

Stochastic ecological network occupancy (SENO) models: A new tool for modeling ecological networks across spatial scales ⬇️

journal article from 'Theoretical Ecology' published in 2010

Stomach nematodes (Mastophorus muris) in rats (Rattus rattus) are associated with coconut (Cocos nucifera) habitat at Palmyra Atoll

scientific article published in February 2010

Temperature and diet effects on omnivorous fish performance: Implications for the latitudinal diversity gradient in herbivorous fishes ⬇️

journal article from 'Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences' published in 2007

Temporal and spatial variation in bird and human use of beaches in southern California ⬇️

scientific article published on February 6, 2013

The assembly, collapse and restoration of food webs

scientific article

The ecology of climate change and infectious diseases

scientific article

The ecology of climate change and infectious diseases: Reply ⬇️

journal article from 'Ecology' published in 2010

The elusive baseline of marine disease: are diseases in ocean ecosystems increasing?

scientific article

The introduced ribbed mussel (Geukensia demissa) in Estero de Punta Banda, Mexico: interactions with the native cord grass, Spartina foliosa

The inverse niche model for food webs with parasites

scientific article

The marine snail, Cerithidea californica, matures at smaller sizes where parasitism is high ⬇️

journal article from 'Oikos' published in 1993

The rise and fall of infectious disease in a warmer world

scientific article

The rising tide of ocean diseases: unsolved problems and research priorities

scientific article published in 2004

The role of competition - colonization tradeoffs and spatial heterogeneity in promoting trematode coexistence. ⬇️

scientific article published in June 2016

The role of spatial and temporal heterogeneity and competition in structuring trematode communities in the great pond snail, Lymnaea stagnalis (L.).

scientific article published on 22 December 2011

Threatened fishes of the world: Eucyclogobius newberryi Girard, 1857 (Gobiidae) ⬇️

journal article from 'Environmental Biology of Fishes' published in 1996

To Reduce the Global Burden of Human Schistosomiasis, Use 'Old Fashioned' Snail Control

scientific article published on 7 November 2017

Towards common ground in the biodiversity–disease debate

scientific article published on 09 December 2019

Trade-offs with growth limit host range in complex life-cycle helminths ⬇️

journal article from 'American Naturalist' published in 2021

Transient disease dynamics across ecological scales ⬇️

journal article from 'Theoretical Ecology' published in 2021

Trematode communities in snails can indicate impact and recovery from hurricanes in a tropical coastal lagoon.

scientific article

Trematodes indicate animal biodiversity in the Chilean intertidal and Lake Tanganyika

scientific article

Trophic strategies, animal diversity and body size

article by Kevin D. Lafferty & Armand M. Kuris published November 2002 in Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Two Myxozoans from the Urinary Tract of Topsmelt, Atherinops affinis.

scientific article published on 17 July 2015

Understanding uncertainty in temperature effects on vector-borne disease: a Bayesian approach

scientific article

Unique parasite aDNA in moa coprolites from New Zealand suggests mass parasite extinctions followed human-induced megafauna extinctions

scientific article published on 12 February 2018

Use of acoustic classification of sidescan sonar data for mapping benthic habitat in the Northern Channel Islands, California

Using larval trematodes that parasitize snails to evaluate a saltmarsh restoration project ⬇️

journal article from 'Ecological Applications' published in 2004

Variable intertidal temperature explains why disease endangers black abalone ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2013

Visualization of schistosomiasis snail habitats using light unmanned aerial vehicles ⬇️

journal article from 'Geospatial Health' published in 2020

WETLANDS OF CALIFORNIA, PART II: CLASSIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION OF WETLANDS OF THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COAST AND COASTAL WATERSHEDS

scientific article published in 1996

WETLANDS OF CALIFORNIA, PART III: KEY TO AND CATALOGUE OF WETLANDS OF THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COAST AND COASTAL WATERSHEDS

scientific article published in 1996

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

scientific article published on 23 February 2010

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