ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2018
Assessing the direct and indirect effects of food provisioning and nutrient enrichment on wildlife infectious disease dynamics.
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- Host-Microbiome Interactions as Moderators of Host Quality and Biodiversity-Disease Relationships.Integrative and comparative biology · 2025Review
- Widespread exposure to SARS-CoV-2 in wildlife communities.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Evaluating host diet effects on microparasites by measuring the stoichiometry of infrapopulations one cell at a time.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
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- In Situ Provisioning Wildlife with Food, Water, or Shelter after Bushfires: Using a One Welfare Framework to Guide Responses.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
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- Feeding the fever: Complex host-pathogen dynamics along continuous resource gradients.Ecology and evolution · 2023Review
- Feeding sites promoting wildlife-related tourism might highly expose the endangered Yunnan snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus bieti) to parasite transmission.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Supplemented nutrition decreases helminth burden and increases drug efficacy in a natural host-helminth system.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Elucidating mechanisms of invasion success: effects of parasite removal on growth and survival rates of invasive and native frogs.The Journal of applied ecology · 2020Article
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- Clinically relevant antimicrobial resistance at the wildlife-livestock-human interface in Nairobi: an epidemiological study.The Lancet. Planetary health · 2019Article
- Microbial communities in hummingbird feeders are distinct from floral nectar and influenced by bird visitation.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Emerging human infectious diseases and the links to global food production.Nature sustainability · 2019Review
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Abstract
Anthropogenic resource supplementation can shape wildlife disease directly by altering the traits and densities of hosts and parasites or indirectly by stimulating prey, competitor or predator species. We first assess the direct epidemiological consequences of supplementation, highlighting the similarities and differences between food provisioning and two widespread forms of nutrient input: agricultural fertilization and aquatic nutrient enrichment. We then review an aquatic disease system and a general model to assess whether predator and competitor species can enhance or overturn the direct effects of enrichment. All forms of supplementation can directly affect epidemics by increasing host population size or altering parasite production within hosts, but food provisioning is most likely to aggregate hosts and increase parasite transmission. However, if predators or competitors increase in response to supplementation, they could alter resource-fuelled outbreaks in focal hosts. We recommend identifying the traits of hosts, parasites or interacting species that best predict epidemiological responses to supplementation and evaluating the relative importance of these direct and indirect mechanisms. Theory and experiments should examine the timing of behavioural, physiological and demographic changes for realistic, variable scenarios of supplementation. A more integrative view of resource supplementation and wildlife disease could yield broadly applicable disease management strategies.This article is part of the theme issue 'Anthropogenic resource subsidies and host-parasite dynamics in wildlife'.
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