ReviewProceedings. Biological sciences2014
Infectious disease agents mediate interaction in food webs and ecosystems.
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- Lessons from Chloroviruses: the Complex and Diverse Roles of Viruses in Food Webs.Journal of virology · 2023Review
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- Infection dynamics in ecosystems: on the interaction between red and grey squirrels, pox virus, pine martens and trees.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2021Article
- Reduction and recovery of keystone predation pressure after disease-related mass mortality.Ecology and evolution · 2018Article
- Quantifying the dilution effect for models in ecological epidemiology.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2018Article
- The epidemiological models of Karl-Peter Hadeler.Infectious Disease Modelling · 2018Article
- Metazoan parasite communities in Alosa alosa (Linnaeus, 1758) and Alosa fallax (Lacépède, 1803) (Clupeidae) from North-East Atlantic coastal waters and connected rivers.Parasitology research · 2017Article
- Disease-mediated bottom-up regulation: An emergent virus affects a keystone prey, and alters the dynamics of trophic webs.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Chytrid parasitism facilitates trophic transfer between bloom-forming cyanobacteria and zooplankton (Daphnia).Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Comparison of sampling methodologies and estimation of population parameters for a temporary fish ectoparasite.International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2016Article
- Indirect effects of parasitism: costs of infection to other individuals can be greater than direct costs borne by the host.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2015Article
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- How mathematical epidemiology became a field of biology: a commentary on Anderson and May (1981) 'The population dynamics of microparasites and their invertebrate hosts'.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2015Review
- Modeling infectious disease dynamics in the complex landscape of global health.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2015Review
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Abstract
Infectious agents are part of food webs and ecosystems via the relationship with their host species that, in turn, interact with both hosts and non-hosts. Through these interactions, infectious agents influence food webs in terms of structure, functioning and stability. The present literature shows a broad range of impacts of infectious agents on food webs, and by cataloguing that range, we worked towards defining the various mechanisms and their specific effects. To explore the impact, a direct approach is to study changes in food-web properties with infectious agents as separate species in the web, acting as additional nodes, with links to their host species. An indirect approach concentrates not on adding new nodes and links, but on the ways that infectious agents affect the existing links across host and non-host nodes, by influencing the 'quality' of consumer-resource interaction as it depends on the epidemiological state host involved. Both approaches are natural from an ecological point of view, but the indirect approach may connect more straightforwardly to commonly used tools in infectious disease dynamics.
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