ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2015
Food provisioning alters infection dynamics in populations of a wild rodent.
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- Using host species traits to understand the consequences of resource provisioning for host-parasite interactions.The Journal of animal ecology · 2018Pooled it
- Food Subsidy Effects on Host Foraging Behavior Shape Host-Macroparasite Infection Dynamics.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Life-history stage influences immune investment and oxidative stress in response to environmental heterogeneity in Antarctic fur seals.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Is the diet cyclic phase-dependent in boreal vole populations?Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Stabilization and optimization of host-microbe-environment interactions as a potential reason for the behavior of natal philopatry.Animal microbiome · 2021Review
- Population cycles and outbreaks of small rodents: ten essential questions we still need to solve.Oecologia · 2021Review
- Are gastrointestinal parasites associated with the cyclic population dynamics of their arctic lemming hosts?International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2019Article
- Voles and weasels in the boreal Fennoscandian small mammal community: what happens if the least weasel disappears due to climate change?Integrative zoology · 2019Review
- Reviewing the effects of food provisioning on wildlife immunity.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Review
- Food for contagion: synthesis and future directions for studying host-parasite responses to resource shifts in anthropogenic environments.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Review
- The effects of food and parasitism on reproductive performance of a wild rodent.Ecology and evolution · 2018Article
- Recovery of Bordetella bronchiseptica sequence type 82 and B. pseudohinzii from urban rats in Terengganu, Malaysia.The Journal of veterinary medical science · 2018Article
- Fueling Defense: Effects of Resources on the Ecology and Evolution of Tolerance to Parasite Infection.Frontiers in immunology · 2018Review
- Experimental testing of reciprocal effects of nutrition and parasitism in wild black capuchin monkeys.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Surviving winter: Food, but not habitat structure, prevents crashes in cyclic vole populations.Ecology and evolution · 2017Article
- Food limitation constrains host immune responses to nematode infections.Biology letters · 2016Article
- Identification of Hepatozoon erhardovae Krampitz, 1964 from bank voles (Myodes glareolus) and fleas in Southern Hungary.Parasitology research · 2016Article
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7 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
While pathogens are often assumed to limit the growth of wildlife populations, experimental evidence for their effects is rare. A lack of food resources has been suggested to enhance the negative effects of pathogen infection on host populations, but this theory has received little investigation. We conducted a replicated two-factor enclosure experiment, with introduction of the bacterium Bordetella bronchiseptica and food supplementation, to evaluate the individual and interactive effects of pathogen infection and food availability on vole populations during a boreal winter. We show that prior to bacteria introduction, vole populations were limited by food availability. Bordetella bronchiseptica introduction then reduced population growth and abundance, but contrary to predictions, primarily in food supplemented populations. Infection prevalence and pathological changes in vole lungs were most common in food supplemented populations, and are likely to have resulted from increased congregation and bacteria transmission around feeding stations. Bordetella bronchiseptica-infected lungs often showed protozoan co-infection (consistent with Hepatozoon erhardovae), together with more severe inflammatory changes. Using a multidisciplinary approach, this study demonstrates a complex picture of interactions and underlying mechanisms, leading to population-level effects. Our results highlight the potential for food provisioning to markedly influence disease processes in wildlife mammal populations.
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