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List of works by Mercedes Pascual

A general model for food web structure

scientific article published in May 2008

A stochastic model for ecological systems with strong nonlinear response to environmental drivers: application to two water-borne diseases

scientific article

Altitudinal changes in malaria incidence in highlands of Ethiopia and Colombia

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An immune memory–structured SIS epidemiological model for hyperdiverse pathogens

scientific article published in November 2023

Anticipating critical transitions

scientific article published on October 2012

Author Correction: Fine-scale heterogeneity in population density predicts wave dynamics in dengue epidemics

correction of a scholarly article

Balancing economic and epidemiological interventions in the early stages of pathogen emergence

scientific article published on 26 May 2023

Building epidemiological models from R0: an implicit treatment of transmission in networks

scientific article published in February 2007

Canalization of the evolutionary trajectory of the human influenza virus

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Cholera and climate: revisiting the quantitative evidence

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Cholera and shigellosis: different epidemiology but similar responses to climate variability

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Cholera forecast for Dhaka, Bangladesh, with the 2015-2016 El Niño: Lessons learned

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Climate and Population Immunity in Malaria Dynamics: Harnessing Information from Endemicity Gradients

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Climate change and infectious diseases: Can we meet the needs for better prediction?

scholarly article by Xavier Rodó et al published 17 April 2013 in Climatic Change

Climate cycles and forecasts of cutaneous leishmaniasis, a nonstationary vector-borne disease

scientific article (publication date: August 2006)

Climate forcing and desert malaria: the effect of irrigation

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Climate forcing and infectious disease transmission in urban landscapes: integrating demographic and socioeconomic heterogeneity

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Climate-driven endemic cholera is modulated by human mobility in a megacity.

scientific article published on 27 November 2016

Cluster size distributions: signatures of self-organization in spatial ecologies

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Comment on "A keystone mutualism drives pattern in a power function".

scientific article published in September 2006

Comparing models for early warning systems of neglected tropical diseases

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Competition for hosts modulates vast antigenic diversity to generate persistent strain structure in Plasmodium falciparum

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Competition for hosts modulates vast antigenic diversity to generate persistent strain structure in Plasmodium falciparum

scientific article published on 24 June 2019

Computational ecology: from the complex to the simple and back

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Consequences of host heterogeneity, epitope immunodominance, and immune breadth for strain competition

scientific article published on November 18, 2010

Conservation of single amino-acid polymorphisms in Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 and association with severe pathophysiology

Correction: Climate Cycles and Forecasts of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, a Nonstationary Vector-Borne Disease.

scientific article published on 27 March 2007

Critical transitions in malaria transmission models are consistently generated by superinfection

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Criticality and disturbance in spatial ecological systems

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Development, environmental degradation, and disease spread in the Brazilian Amazon.

scientific article published on 15 November 2019

Differential and enhanced response to climate forcing in diarrheal disease due to rotavirus across a megacity of the developing world

scientific article published on 28 March 2016

Disentangling extrinsic from intrinsic factors in disease dynamics: a nonlinear time series approach with an application to cholera

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Do rising temperatures matter?

scientific article published in April 2009

ENSO and cholera: a nonstationary link related to climate change?

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Ecological Networks over the Edge: Hypergraph Trait-Mediated Indirect Interaction (TMII) Structure

scientific article published on 25 February 2016

Ecological Science and Sustainability for the 21st Century

scientific article published in 2005

Ecological factors driving the long-term evolution of influenza's host range

scientific article published on 5 May 2010

Ecological science and sustainability for the 21st century

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Ecology. Ecology for a crowded planet

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Epidemic cholera spreads like wildfire

scientific article published on 15 January 2014

Epidemic malaria and warmer temperatures in recent decades in an East African highland

scientific article published on November 10, 2010

Epochal evolution shapes the phylodynamics of interpandemic influenza A (H3N2) in humans

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Evidence of strain structure in Plasmodium falciparum var gene repertoires in children from Gabon, West Africa

scientific article published in May 2017

Evolution-informed forecasting of seasonal influenza A (H3N2)

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Evolution-informed forecasting of seasonal influenza A (H3N2).

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Fine-scale heterogeneity in population density predicts wave dynamics in dengue epidemics

scientific article published on 22 February 2022

Food web models: a plea for groups.

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Forcing versus feedback: epidemic malaria and monsoon rains in northwest India

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Forecasting Bifurcations from Large Perturbation Recoveries in Feedback Ecosystems

scientific article published on 10 September 2015

Functional links and robustness in food webs

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Global malaria maps and climate change: a focus on East African highlands

scientific article published on 26 August 2011

Global migration dynamics underlie evolution and persistence of human influenza A (H3N2)

scientific article published in May 2010

Googling food webs: can an eigenvector measure species' importance for coextinctions?

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Highly localized sensitivity to climate forcing drives endemic cholera in a megacity

scientific article published on January 23, 2012

Homology blocks of Plasmodium falciparum var genes and clinically distinct forms of severe malaria in a local population

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Hyperinfectivity in cholera: a new mechanism for an old epidemiological model?

scientific article published on 27 June 2006

Identifying functional groups among the diverse, recombining antigenic var genes of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum from a local community in Ghana.

scientific article published on 13 June 2018

Impacts of climate change on public health in India: future research directions

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Inapparent infections and cholera dynamics.

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Incidence Prediction for the 2017-2018 Influenza Season in the United States with an Evolution-informed Model

scientific article published on 17 January 2018

Influenza evolution navigates stability valleys

scientific article published on May 14, 2013

Long-lasting transition toward sustainable elimination of desert malaria under irrigation development

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Malaria control under unstable dynamics: reactive vs. climate-based strategies

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Malaria resurgence in the East African highlands: temperature trends revisited

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Malaria transmission pattern resilience to climatic variability is mediated by insecticide-treated nets

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Malaria trends in Ethiopian highlands track the 2000 'slowdown' in global warming

scientific article published on 10 March 2021

Mosquito-borne transmission in urban landscapes: the missing link between vector abundance and human density

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Network structure, predator–prey modules, and stability in large food webs

scholarly article by Stefano Allesina & Mercedes Pascual published 2 October 2007 in Theoretical Ecology

Networks of genetic similarity reveal non-neutral processes shape strain structure in Plasmodium falciparum

Networks of genetic similarity reveal non-neutral processes shape strain structure in Plasmodium falciparum.

scientific article published on 8 May 2018

Parasites in food webs: the ultimate missing links

scientific article published on June 2008

Pathogen adaptation to seasonal forcing and climate change

scholarly article by Katia Koelle et al published 7 May 2005 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B

Phenotypic plasticity opposes species invasions by altering fitness surface

scientific article published in October 2006

Population Density, Climate Variables and Poverty Synergistically Structure Spatial Risk in Urban Malaria in India

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Population structuring of multi-copy, antigen-encoding genes in Plasmodium falciparum

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Predictability of epidemic malaria under non-stationary conditions with process-based models combining epidemiological updates and climate variability

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Predicting endemic cholera: the role of climate variability and disease dynamics

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Presurgical assessment of the tumor burden of familial medullary thyroid carcinoma by calcitonin testing

scientific article published on November 2002

Quasicycles revisited: apparent sensitivity to initial conditions

scientific article published in November 2003

Random, top-down, or bottom-up coexistence of parasites: malaria population dynamics in multi-parasitic settings

scientific article published in September 2009

Refractory periods and climate forcing in cholera dynamics

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Robust scaling in ecosystems and the meltdown of patch size distributions before extinction

scientific article published on 11 November 2010

Seasonal Variation in the Epidemiology of Asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum Infections across Two Catchment Areas in Bongo District, Ghana

scientific article published in July 2017

Seasonal patterns of infectious diseases

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Seasonality and the dynamics of infectious diseases

scientific article published in April 2006

Seasonality in cholera dynamics: A rainfall-driven model explains the wide range of patterns in endemic areas

Seasonality in the migration and establishment of H3N2 Influenza lineages with epidemic growth and decline

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Serotype cycles in cholera dynamics

scientific article published in November 2006

Shifting patterns: malaria dynamics and rainfall variability in an African highland

scientific article published in January 2008

Signatures of competition and strain structure within the major blood-stage antigen of Plasmodium falciparum in a local community in Ghana

scientific article published in March 2018

Simple models for complex systems: exploiting the relationship between local and global densities

scientific article published on January 2011

Skeletons, noise and population growth: the end of an old debate?

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Social exclusion modifies climate and deforestation impacts on a vector-borne disease

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Sources and sinks: revisiting the criteria for identifying reservoirs for American cutaneous leishmaniasis

scientific article published on 24 May 2007

Spatial clustering in the spatio-temporal dynamics of endemic cholera

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Spatial guilds in the Serengeti food web revealed by a Bayesian group model

scientific article (publication date: December 2011)

Stochastic amplification in epidemics

scientific article published on June 2007

Strength and tempo of selection revealed in viral gene genealogies

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Synergistic and antagonistic interactions between bednets and vaccines in the control of malaria

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Temperature and population density determine reservoir regions of seasonal persistence in highland malaria

scientific article published in December 2015

The Potential Elimination of Plasmodium vivax Malaria by Relapse Treatment: Insights from a Transmission Model and Surveillance Data from NW India

scientific article published on January 10, 2013

The assembly, collapse and restoration of food webs

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The impact of indoor residual spraying on Plasmodium falciparum microsatellite variation in an area of high seasonal malaria transmission in Ghana, West Africa

scientific article published on 16 July 2021

The inverse niche model for food webs with parasites

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The multilayer nature of ecological networks.

scientific article published on 23 March 2017

The network structure and eco-evolutionary dynamics of CRISPR-induced immune diversification

scientific article published on 19 October 2020

The rise and fall of malaria under land-use change in frontier regions

scholarly article by Andres Baeza et al published 20 March 2017 in Nature Ecology and Evolution

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

scientific article published in 2004

The roles of competition and mutation in shaping antigenic and genetic diversity in influenza

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Transmission Intensity and Drug Resistance in Malaria Population Dynamics: Implications for Climate Change

scientific article published on October 26, 2010

Underestimating malaria risk under variable temperatures

scientific article published on 12 August 2009

Understanding Shifts in Wildfire Regimes as Emergent Threshold Phenomena

scientific article published on October 28, 2011

Understanding the dynamics of rapidly evolving pathogens through modeling the tempo of antigenic change: Influenza as a case study

scientific article published on June 2, 2009

Understanding the role of parasites in food webs using the group model

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