List of works - Hillary S. Young

A landscape of disgust

scientific article published in March 2018

A mammoth undertaking: harnessing insight from functional ecology to shape de-extinction priority setting

article

Acute effects of removing large fish from a near-pristine coral reef

scientific article

Assessing the effects of large mobile predators on ecosystem connectivity ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 2012

Bushmeat hunting and extinction risk to the world's mammals

scientific article

Conservation at the edges of the world

Conservation implications of disease control

scientific article

Conservation lessons from large-mammal manipulations in East African savannas: the KLEE, UHURU, and GLADE experiments ⬇️

scientific article published on 11 May 2018

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

scientific article

Conserving the World's Megafauna and Biodiversity: The Fierce Urgency of Now

Consumer preference for seeds and seedlings of rare species impacts tree diversity at multiple scales

scientific article

Context-Dependent Effects of Largewildlife Declines on Small-Mammal Communities in Central Kenya

scholarly article by Hillary S. Young et al published January 2015 in Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America

Context-dependent effects of large-wildlife declines on small-mammal communities in central Kenya

scientific article published on March 2015

Context‐dependent effects of shifting large herbivore assemblages on plant structure and diversity

scientific article published in 2022

Correction to 'Migration in the Anthropocene: how collective navigation, environmental system and taxonomy shape the vulnerability of migratory species'.

scientific article

Declines in large wildlife increase landscape-level prevalence of rodent-borne disease in Africa

scientific article (publication date: 13 May 2014)

Defaunation in the Anthropocene

scientific article

Differential responses to guano fertilization among tropical tree species with varying functional traits ⬇️

scientific article published on 7 January 2011

Does biodiversity protect humans against infectious disease?

scientific article

Does biodiversity protect humans against infectious disease? Reply

scientific article

Does habitat disturbance increase infectious disease risk for primates?

scientific article published in March 2013

Drivers of Intensity and Prevalence of Flea Parasitism on Small Mammals in East African Savanna Ecosystems.

scientific article published on 29 January 2015

Effects of land use on plague (Yersinia pestis) activity in rodents in Tanzania

scientific article

Effects of land-use change on community diversity and composition are highly variable among functional groups

scientific article published on 09 August 2019

Effects of mammalian herbivore declines on plant communities: observations and experiments in an African savanna

scientific article (publication date: July 2013)

Effects of road proximity on heavy metal concentrations in soils and common roadside plants in Southern California

article

Effects of spatial subsidies and habitat structure on the foraging ecology and size of geckos

scientific article

Evaluating the performance of methods for estimating the abundance of rapidly declining coastal shark populations ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 2012

From wing to wing: the persistence of long ecological interaction chains in less-disturbed ecosystems

scientific article

Genome sequence, population history, and pelage genetics of the endangered African wild dog (Lycaon pictus).

scientific article

High-Throughput Sequencing for Understanding the Ecology of Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Wildlife-Human Interface

scientific article

Host-Parasite Associations in Small Mammal Communities in Semiarid Savanna Ecosystems of East Africa

scientific article

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

scientific article

Impacts of rodent eradication on seed predation and plant community biomass on a tropical atoll

scientific article published on 07 October 2020

Interacting effects of land use and climate on rodent-borne pathogens in central Kenya

scientific article

Interacting effects of wildlife loss and climate on ticks and tick-borne disease

scientific article

Interactions between temperature and predation impact insect emergence in alpine lakes

scientific article published in 2023

Interactive and unimodal relationships between plant biomass, abiotic factors, and plant diversity in global grasslands

scientific article published on 21 January 2025

Introduced Species, Disease Ecology, and Biodiversity-Disease Relationships

scientific article

Invasive rat eradication strongly impacts plant recruitment on a tropical atoll ⬇️

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Large wildlife removal drives immune defence increases in rodents

scientific article published in 2015

Large-herbivore nemabiomes: patterns of parasite diversity and sharing

scientific article published on 11 May 2022

Lead Concentrations in Soils and Some Wild Plant Species Along Two Busy Roads in Pakistan

scientific article published on 16 December 2017

Limited trophic partitioning among sympatric delphinids off a tropical oceanic atoll

scientific article published on 2 August 2017

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

scientific article published in February 2018

Microbial Ecology of the Western Gull (Larus occidentalis)

scientific article published on 20 March 2019

Migration in the Anthropocene: how collective navigation, environmental system and taxonomy shape the vulnerability of migratory species

scientific article published in May 2018

Night shift: expansion of temporal niche use following reductions in predator density

scientific article published in 2012

Parasite responses to large mammal loss in an African savanna

scientific article

Passive recovery of an island bird community after rodent eradication

Piecewise disassembly of a large-herbivore community across a rainfall gradient: the UHURU experiment

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Plants cause ecosystem nutrient depletion via the interruption of bird-derived spatial subsidies

scientific article

Positive and negative effects of a threatened parrotfish on reef ecosystems

scientific article

Proximity to encroaching coconut palm limits native forest water use and persistence on a Pacific atoll

Pushing back against paper-park pushers – Reply to Craigie et al

article

Reliance of mobile species on sensitive habitats: a case study of manta rays (Manta alfredi) and lagoons

article

Saving the World's Terrestrial Megafauna.

scientific article

Sexism discussion misses the point

scientific article

Simultaneous identification of host, ectoparasite and pathogen DNA via in-solution capture

scientific article

Small mammal responses to fire severity mediated by vegetation characteristics and species traits

scientific article published on 20 May 2022

Soil fungal community composition and functional similarity shift across distinct climatic conditions

scientific article published on 22 September 2020

Synthesizing the effects of large, wild herbivore exclusion on ecosystem function

scientific article published on 18 May 2019

The effects of herbivore aggregations at water sources on savanna plants differ across soil and climate gradients

scientific article

The roles of productivity and ecosystem size in determining food chain length in tropical terrestrial ecosystems ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 2013

Use of high-resolution acoustic cameras to study reef shark behavioral ecology

scientific article published in 2016

Using Natural Pelt Patterns to Estimate Population Abundance with Mark–Resight Models

scientific article published on 28 October 2020

Water sources aggregate parasites with increasing effects in more arid conditions

scientific article

Water sources aggregate parasites, with increasing effects in more arid conditions

scientific article

What explains tick proliferation following large-herbivore exclusion?

scientific article published on 01 May 2018

List of works by Hillary S. Young

A landscape of disgust

A mammoth undertaking: harnessing insight from functional ecology to shape de-extinction priority setting

Acute effects of removing large fish from a near-pristine coral reef

Assessing the effects of large mobile predators on ecosystem connectivity ⬇️

Bushmeat hunting and extinction risk to the world's mammals

Conservation at the edges of the world

Conservation implications of disease control

Conservation lessons from large-mammal manipulations in East African savannas: the KLEE, UHURU, and GLADE experiments ⬇️

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

Conserving the World's Megafauna and Biodiversity: The Fierce Urgency of Now

Consumer preference for seeds and seedlings of rare species impacts tree diversity at multiple scales

Context-Dependent Effects of Largewildlife Declines on Small-Mammal Communities in Central Kenya

Context-dependent effects of large-wildlife declines on small-mammal communities in central Kenya

Context‐dependent effects of shifting large herbivore assemblages on plant structure and diversity

Correction to 'Migration in the Anthropocene: how collective navigation, environmental system and taxonomy shape the vulnerability of migratory species'.

Declines in large wildlife increase landscape-level prevalence of rodent-borne disease in Africa

Defaunation in the Anthropocene

Differential responses to guano fertilization among tropical tree species with varying functional traits ⬇️

Does biodiversity protect humans against infectious disease?

Does biodiversity protect humans against infectious disease? Reply

Does habitat disturbance increase infectious disease risk for primates?

Drivers of Intensity and Prevalence of Flea Parasitism on Small Mammals in East African Savanna Ecosystems.

Effects of land use on plague (Yersinia pestis) activity in rodents in Tanzania

Effects of land-use change on community diversity and composition are highly variable among functional groups

Effects of mammalian herbivore declines on plant communities: observations and experiments in an African savanna

Effects of road proximity on heavy metal concentrations in soils and common roadside plants in Southern California

Effects of spatial subsidies and habitat structure on the foraging ecology and size of geckos

Evaluating the performance of methods for estimating the abundance of rapidly declining coastal shark populations ⬇️

From wing to wing: the persistence of long ecological interaction chains in less-disturbed ecosystems

Genome sequence, population history, and pelage genetics of the endangered African wild dog (Lycaon pictus).

High-Throughput Sequencing for Understanding the Ecology of Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Wildlife-Human Interface

Host-Parasite Associations in Small Mammal Communities in Semiarid Savanna Ecosystems of East Africa

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

Impacts of rodent eradication on seed predation and plant community biomass on a tropical atoll

Interacting effects of land use and climate on rodent-borne pathogens in central Kenya

Interacting effects of wildlife loss and climate on ticks and tick-borne disease

Interactions between temperature and predation impact insect emergence in alpine lakes

Interactive and unimodal relationships between plant biomass, abiotic factors, and plant diversity in global grasslands

Introduced Species, Disease Ecology, and Biodiversity-Disease Relationships

Invasive rat eradication strongly impacts plant recruitment on a tropical atoll ⬇️

Large wildlife removal drives immune defence increases in rodents

Large-herbivore nemabiomes: patterns of parasite diversity and sharing

Lead Concentrations in Soils and Some Wild Plant Species Along Two Busy Roads in Pakistan

Limited trophic partitioning among sympatric delphinids off a tropical oceanic atoll

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

Microbial Ecology of the Western Gull (Larus occidentalis)

Migration in the Anthropocene: how collective navigation, environmental system and taxonomy shape the vulnerability of migratory species

Night shift: expansion of temporal niche use following reductions in predator density

Parasite responses to large mammal loss in an African savanna

Passive recovery of an island bird community after rodent eradication

Piecewise disassembly of a large-herbivore community across a rainfall gradient: the UHURU experiment

Plants cause ecosystem nutrient depletion via the interruption of bird-derived spatial subsidies

Positive and negative effects of a threatened parrotfish on reef ecosystems

Proximity to encroaching coconut palm limits native forest water use and persistence on a Pacific atoll

Pushing back against paper-park pushers – Reply to Craigie et al

Reliance of mobile species on sensitive habitats: a case study of manta rays (Manta alfredi) and lagoons

Saving the World's Terrestrial Megafauna.

Sexism discussion misses the point

Simultaneous identification of host, ectoparasite and pathogen DNA via in-solution capture

Small mammal responses to fire severity mediated by vegetation characteristics and species traits

Soil fungal community composition and functional similarity shift across distinct climatic conditions

Synthesizing the effects of large, wild herbivore exclusion on ecosystem function

The effects of herbivore aggregations at water sources on savanna plants differ across soil and climate gradients

The roles of productivity and ecosystem size in determining food chain length in tropical terrestrial ecosystems ⬇️

Use of high-resolution acoustic cameras to study reef shark behavioral ecology

Using Natural Pelt Patterns to Estimate Population Abundance with Mark–Resight Models

Water sources aggregate parasites with increasing effects in more arid conditions

Water sources aggregate parasites, with increasing effects in more arid conditions

What explains tick proliferation following large-herbivore exclusion?