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A Candide response to Panglossian accusations by Randolph and Dobson: biodiversity buffers disease ⬇️

scientific article published on May 29, 2013

Accelerated phenology of blacklegged ticks under climate warming

scientific article

An Experimental Test of Competition among Mice, Chipmunks, and Squirrels in Deciduous Forest Fragments

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Assessing Effectiveness of Recommended Residential Yard Management Measures Against Ticks

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Biodiversity Loss Affects Global Disease Ecology

Biodiversity and Disease Risk: the Case of Lyme Disease

scientific article published on 11 March 2003

Biodiversity loss and the ecology of infectious disease

scientific article published on 04 April 2017

Biodiversity loss and the rise of zoonotic pathogens

scientific article

Biodiversity series: The function of biodiversity in the ecology of vector-borne zoonotic diseases

scientific article published in 2000

Blacklegged tick population synchrony between oak forest and non‐oak forest

scientific article published in 2021

Borrelia burgdorferi has minimal impact on the Lyme disease reservoir host Peromyscus leucopus

scientific article published on 23 June 2010

Bottlenecks in domestic animal populations can facilitate the emergence of Trypanosoma cruzi, the aetiological agent of Chagas disease

scientific article published in July 2015

COMMUNITY DISASSEMBLY, BIODIVERSITY LOSS, AND THE EROSION OF AN ECOSYSTEM SERVICE

scientific article published in 2003

Can integrating wildlife and livestock enhance ecosystem services in central Kenya?

scholarly article by Brian F Allan et al published 26 June 2017 in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Cattle and rainfall affect tick abundance in central Kenya

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Chain reactions linking acorns to gypsy moth outbreaks and Lyme disease risk

scientific article published on February 1998

Climate change and Ixodes tick-borne diseases of humans

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Climate change and infectious diseases: from evidence to a predictive framework

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Climate change and species interactions: ways forward

scientific article published in September 2013

Climate change and the distribution and intensity of infectious diseases

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Climate warming and disease risks for terrestrial and marine biota

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Climate, deer, rodents, and acorns as determinants of variation in lyme-disease risk

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Climate, environmental and socio-economic change: weighing up the balance in vector-borne disease transmission

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Co-infection of blacklegged ticks with Babesia microti and Borrelia burgdorferi is higher than expected and acquired from small mammal hosts

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Coinfection of Blacklegged Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) in Dutchess County, New York, with the Agents of Lyme Disease and Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis

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Conspicuous impacts of inconspicuous hosts on the Lyme disease epidemic

scientific article published in January 2008

Controlling Lyme Disease by Modifying the Density and Species Composition of Tick Hosts

scientific article published in 1995

Controlling Ticks and Tick-borne Zoonoses with Biological and Chemical Agents

article by RICHARD S. OSTFELD et al published 2006 in BioScience

Correction to: Systematic review and meta-analysis of tick-borne disease risk factors in residential yards, neighborhoods, and beyond

scientific article published on 05 December 2019

Crossing the interspecies barrier: opening the door to zoonotic pathogens

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Data-model fusion to better understand emerging pathogens and improve infectious disease forecasting

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Defining the Risk of Zika and Chikungunya Virus Transmission in Human Population Centers of the Eastern United States

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Density-Dependent Processes in Meadow Voles: An Experimental Approach

article published in 1995

Direct and indirect effects of masting on rodent populations and tree seed survival

scientific article published in 2002

Does biodiversity protect humans against infectious disease? Comment

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EFFECTS OF RODENTS ON SURVIVAL OF TREE SEEDS AND SEEDLINGS INVADING OLD FIELDS

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EXPERIMENTAL REMOVAL OF STRONG AND WEAK PREDATORS: MICE AND CHIPMUNKS PREYING ON SONGBIRD NESTS

scholarly article by K. A. Schmidt et al published October 2001 in Ecology

Eastern chipmunks increase their perception of predation risk in response to titmouse alarm calls

scientific article published in 2008

Eavesdropping squirrels reduce their future value of food under the perceived presence of cache robbers

scientific article published on March 2008

Ecological correlates of risk and incidence of West Nile virus in the United States

scientific article

Ecology. Is biodiversity good for your health?

scientific article published on July 2015

Ecology. Oh the locusts sang, then they dropped dead

scientific article published in November 2004

Effect of Forest Fragmentation on Lyme Disease Risk

scientific article published in February 2003

Effect of spatial scale and latitude on diversity-disease relationships

scientific article published on 23 January 2020

Effectiveness of Metarhizium anisopliae (Deuteromycetes) against Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) engorging on Peromnyscus leucopus.

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Effects of Host Diversity on Infectious Disease

scientific article published in 2012

Effects of Meadow Vole Population Density on Tree Seedling Survival in Oil Fields

scientific article published in 1993

Effects of a zoonotic pathogen, Borrelia burgdorferi, on the behavior of a key reservoir host.

scientific article

Effects of acorn production and mouse abundance on abundance and Borrelia burgdorferi infection prevalence of nymphal Ixodes scapularis ticks

scientific article published in January 2001

Effects of an invasive forest pathogen on abundance of ticks and their vertebrate hosts in a California Lyme disease focus

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Effects of environmental change on zoonotic disease risk: an ecological primer

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Effects of garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) on entomopathogenic fungi

scientific article published in 2011

Effects of species diversity on disease risk

scientific article published in April 2006

Effects of stoat's presence and auditory cues indicating its presence on tree seedling predation by meadow voles

scientific article published in 2000

Effects of wildlife and cattle on tick abundance in central Kenya

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Emerging human infectious diseases and the links to global food production

scientific article published on 11 June 2019

Environmental monitoring to enhance comprehension and control of infectious diseases

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Estimating reservoir competence of Borrelia burgdorferi hosts: prevalence and infectivity, sensitivity, and specificity

scientific article published in January 2008

Experimental evidence for reduced rodent diversity causing increased hantavirus prevalence

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Experimental studies of interactions between wild turkeys and black-legged ticks

scientific article published on 01 December 1999

Factors influencing the distribution of larval blacklegged ticks on rodent hosts

scientific article published on 01 April 2003

Foraging strategies and prey switching in the California sea otter

scientific article published in January 1982

Frontiers in research on biodiversity and disease

scientific article (publication date: October 2015)

Hosts as ecological traps for the vector of Lyme disease

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Human health impacts of ecosystem alteration

scientific article (publication date: 19 November 2013)

INVASIVE SHRUBS AND SONGBIRD NESTING SUCCESS: EFFECTS OF CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND PREDATOR ABUNDANCE

scientific article published in 2005

Immunochallenge reduces risk sensitivity during foraging in white-footed mice

article by Lisa E. Schwanz et al published January 2012 in Animal Behaviour

Impact of host community composition on Lyme disease risk

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Impact of the experimental removal of lizards on Lyme disease risk

scientific article published on 16 February 2011

Impacts of an introduced forest pathogen on the risk of Lyme disease in California

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Impacts of biodiversity and biodiversity loss on zoonotic diseases

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Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases

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Impacts of large herbivorous mammals on bird diversity and abundance in an African savanna

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Infestation of Peromyscus leucopus and Tamias striatus by Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) in relation to the abundance of hosts and parasites

scientific article published in November 1999

Influence of hosts on the ecology of arboviral transmission: potential mechanisms influencing dengue, Murray Valley encephalitis, and Ross River virus in Australia

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Influences of Host Community Characteristics on Borrelia burgdorferi Infection Prevalence in Blacklegged Ticks.

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Interactions between mammals and trees: predation on mammal-dispersed seeds and the effect of ambient food

scientific article published on 01 February 2002

Interactions between tick and transmitted pathogens evolved to minimise competition through nested and coherent networks

scientific article

Intrinsic density-dependent regulation of vole populations.

scientific article published in November 1993

Investigating and managing the rapid emergence of white-nose syndrome, a novel, fatal, infectious disease of hibernating bats

scientific article published on February 2011

Is biodiversity bad for your health?

scientific article published on 08 March 2017

Isolation of deer tick virus (Powassan virus, lineage II) from Ixodes scapularis and detection of antibody in vertebrate hosts sampled in the Hudson Valley, New York State

scientific article published on 15 July 2013

It takes a community to raise the prevalence of a zoonotic pathogen

scientific article published on 21 November 2011

LIMITED DISPERSAL AND HETEROGENEOUS PREDATION RISK SYNERGISTICALLY ENHANCE PERSISTENCE OF RARE PREY

scholarly article by Brett J. Goodwin et al published December 2005 in Ecology

LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF RODENT HERBIVORES ON TREE INVASION DYNAMICS ALONG FOREST–FIELD EDGES

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Laboratory and field evaluation of the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae (Deuteromycetes) for controlling questing adult Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae)

scientific article published on 01 September 2002

Larval density and feeding success of Ixodes scapularis on two species of Peromyscus

scientific article published on 01 December 1995

Life history and demographic drivers of reservoir competence for three tick-borne zoonotic pathogens

scientific article

Linking disease and community ecology through behavioural indicators: immunochallenge of white-footed mice and its ecological impacts

scientific article published on 26 August 2010

Long-Term Effects of Rodent Herbivores on Tree Invasion Dynamics along Forest-Field Edges

scientific article published in 2001

Lyme disease : the ecology of a complex system

MODELING THE EFFECTS OF RESERVOIR COMPETENCE DECAY AND DEMOGRAPHIC TURNOVER IN LYME DISEASE ECOLOGY

scholarly article by Eric M. Schauber & Richard S. Ostfeld published August 2002 in Ecological Applications

Mammalian predator scent, vegetation cover and tree seedling predation by meadow voles

scientific article published in 2002

Mast seeding and Lyme disease

scientific article published on 01 December 1998

Measuring Diving Success of Otters

scientific article published in 1991

Modeling the Effects of Reservoir Competence Decay and Demographic Turnover in Lyme Disease Ecology

scholarly article by Eric M. Schauber & Richard S. Ostfeld published August 2002 in Ecological Applications

Modeling the role of songbirds and rodents in the ecology of Lyme disease

scholarly article by Antonia R Giardina et al published December 2000 in Canadian Journal of Zoology

Modelling transmission of vector-borne pathogens shows complex dynamics when vector feeding sites are limited

scientific article

Molting success of Ixodes scapularis varies among individual blood meal hosts and species

scientific article published on July 2011

Multiple causes of variable tick burdens on small-mammal hosts.

scientific article published in August 2008

NEIGHBORHOOD ANALYSES OF SMALL-MAMMAL DYNAMICS: IMPACTS ON SEED PREDATION AND SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT

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NET EFFECTS OF LARGE MAMMALS ON ACACIA SEEDLING SURVIVAL IN AN AFRICAN SAVANNA

scientific article published on 04 June 2007

Not all nesting guild members are alike: nest predators and conspecific abundance differentially influence nest survival in the ground-nesting Ovenbird (<i>Seiurus aurocapilla</i>) and Veery (<i>Catharus fuscescens</i>)

scientific article published in 2017

Novel organisms: comparing invasive species, GMOs, and emerging pathogens ⬇️

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Numerical and behavioral effects within a pulse-driven system: consequences for shared prey

scientific article published on March 2008

Occurrence and transmission efficiencies of Borrelia burgdorferi ospC types in avian and mammalian wildlife

scientific article

Of Mice and Mast

Of mice and men: lyme disease and biodiversity

scientific article published on January 2014

Overwintering survival of nymphal Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) under natural conditions

Parasite and pathogen effects on ecosystem processes: A quantitative review

scientific article published on 13 May 2020

Parasites as weapons of mouse destruction

scientific article published on 01 March 2008

Partitioning the aggregation of parasites on hosts into intrinsic and extrinsic components via an extended Poisson-gamma mixture model

scientific article

Patch Selection and Tree-Seedling Predation by President vs. Immigrant Meadow Voles

scientific article published in 2000

Potential effects of blood meal host on bacterial community composition in Ixodes scapularis nymphs

scientific article published on 12 January 2019

Presence of Segmented Flaviviruses in Wild Rodents, Pennsylvania, USA

scientific article published on 01 August 2020

Prevalence of human-active and variant 1 strains of the tick-borne pathogen Anaplasma phagocytophilum in hosts and forests of eastern North America

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Pulsed resources and community dynamics of consumers in terrestrial ecosystems

scientific article published on 01 June 2000

Quantifying a dynamic risk landscape: heterogeneous predator activity and implications for prey persistence

scientific article published on January 2009

Quantifying dilution and amplification in a community of hosts for tick-borne pathogens

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Redefining disease emergence to improve prioritization and macro-ecological analyses

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Relationship between pace of life and immune responses in wild rodents

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Reply to De Coster et al.: Exploring the complexity of ecosystem–human health relationships

scientific article published on May 2014

Reservoir competence of vertebrate hosts for Anaplasma phagocytophilum

scientific article published on December 2012

Reservoir competence of wildlife host species for Babesia microti

scientific article published on December 2012

Reservoir targeted vaccine against Borrelia burgdorferi: a new strategy to prevent Lyme disease transmission

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Responses of a small mammal community to heterogeneity along forest-old-field edges

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Risk Factors for Bites and Diseases Associated With Black-Legged Ticks: A Meta-Analysis

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Sacred cows and sympathetic squirrels: the importance of biological diversity to human health

scientific article published in June 2006

Sand fly (Lutzomyia vexator) (Diptera: Psychodidae) populations in upstate New York: abundance, microhabitat, and phenology

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Spatial Dynamics of Lyme Disease: A Review

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Spatial epidemiology: an emerging (or re-emerging) discipline

scientific article published in June 2005

Spatial heterogeneity in predator activity, nest survivorship, and nest-site selection in two forest thrushes

scientific article published on 20 January 2006

Spatial selection and inheritance: applying evolutionary concepts to population dynamics in heterogeneous space

scientific article published in May 2007

Spatiotemporal variation in a Lyme disease host and vector: black-legged ticks on white-footed mice

scientific article published in January 2001

Species that can make us ill thrive in human habitats

scientific article published on 05 August 2020

Straw men don't get Lyme disease: response to Wood and Lafferty

scientific article published on 7 June 2013

Sublethal effects of Metarhizium anisopliae (Deuteromycetes) on engorged larval, nymphal, and adult Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae)

scientific article published on 01 September 2004

Systematic review and meta-analysis of tick-borne disease risk factors in residential yards, neighborhoods, and beyond

scientific article published on 17 October 2019

THE ROLE OF LIZARDS IN THE ECOLOGY OF LYME DISEASE IN TWO ENDEMIC ZONES OF THE NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES

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Temporal and spatial dynamics of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) in a rural landscape

scientific article published on 01 January 1996

The Ecological Basis of Conservation: Heterogeneity, Ecosystems, and Biodiversity

scientific article published in 1999

The Relationship Between Soil Arthropods and the Overwinter Survival of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) Under Manipulated Snow Cover

scientific article published on 19 October 2015

The Tick Project: Testing Environmental Methods of Preventing Tick-borne Diseases

scientific article published on 13 March 2018

The Tick Project: Testing Environmental Methods of Preventing Tick-borne Diseases: (Trends in Parasitology Vol 34, 447-450 2018)

scientific article published on 13 April 2018

The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology 2008. Preface

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The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology. Preface

scientific article published in March 2011

The ecology of infectious disease: effects of host diversity and community composition on Lyme disease risk

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The ecology of territoriality in small mammals ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 1990

The effects of bird feeders on Lyme disease prevalence and density of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) in a residential area of Dutchess County, New York

scientific article published on 01 July 2003

The effects of tree seed and seedling density on predation rates by rodents in old fields

scientific article published in 1998

The impact of temperature and precipitation on blacklegged tick activity and Lyme disease incidence in endemic and emerging regions

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The prevalence of zoonotic tick-borne pathogens in Ixodes scapularis collected in the Hudson Valley, New York State

scientific article published on April 2014

The second volume of The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology. Preface

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The tick biocontrol agent Metarhizium brunneum (= M. anisopliae) (strain F52) does not reduce non-target arthropods

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Tick-, mosquito-, and rodent-borne parasite sampling designs for the National Ecological Observatory Network

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Tick-borne disease risk in a forest food web

scientific article published in 2018

Ticks as Soil-Dwelling Arthropods: An Intersection Between Disease and Soil Ecology

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Topic modeling of major research themes in disease ecology of mammals

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Tritrophic interactions between a fungal pathogen, a spider predator, and the blacklegged tick.

scientific article

Trojan Females and Judas Goats: Evolutionary Traps as Tools in Wildlife Management

scientific article published on 01 September 2017

Tropical forests and child health

scientific article published on 04 August 2017

Type 3 functional response of mice to gypsy moth pupae: is it stabilizing?

article by Eric M. Schauber et al published December 2004 in Oikos

USE OF TRACK PLATES TO QUANTIFY PREDATION RISK AT SMALL SPATIAL SCALES

scientific article published in 2005

Viewing Emerging Human Infectious Epidemics through the Lens of Invasion Biology

scientific article

WHAT IS THE BEST PREDICTOR OF ANNUAL LYME DISEASE INCIDENCE: WEATHER, MICE, OR ACORNS?

scholarly article by Eric M. Schauber et al published April 2005 in Ecological Applications

When is a parasite not a parasite? Effects of larval tick burdens on white-footed mouse survival

scientific article published in May 2014

Where the Wild Things Aren't: Loss of Biodiversity, Emerging Infectious Diseases, and Implications for Diagnosticians

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Wood thrush nest success and post-fledging survival across a temporal pulse of small mammal abundance in an oak forest

scientific article published on 19 March 2008

Zoonoses: Infectious Diseases Transmissible between Animals and Humans. Fourth Edition. By Rolf Bauerfeind, Alexander von Graevenitz, Peter Kimmig, Hans Gerd Schiefer, Tino Schwarz, Werner Slenczka, and Horst Zahner.Washington (DC): ASM Press. $100.0

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