ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2018
Food for contagion: synthesis and future directions for studying host-parasite responses to resource shifts in anthropogenic environments.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Macroimmunology: The drivers and consequences of spatial patterns in wildlife immune defence.The Journal of animal ecology · 2020Pooled it
- On the diverse and opposing effects of nutrition on pathogen virulence.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Pooled it
- Prioritizing surveillance of Nipah virus in India.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2019Pooled it
- Hard to handle: infected house finches do not prefer easier-to-consume food.Animal behaviour · 2026Article
- Emerging and re-emerging vector-borne and other zoonotic RNA viruses: pathogenesis, climate-driven dynamics, and strategies for global control.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Review
- Food Subsidy Effects on Host Foraging Behavior Shape Host-Macroparasite Infection Dynamics.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Mixed-species assemblages and disease: the importance of differential vector and parasite attraction in transmission dynamics.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Oral disease is linked to low nestling condition and brood size in a raptor species living in a highly modified environment.Current zoology · 2023Article
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- SARS-CoV-2 at the Human-Animal Interface: Implication for Global Public Health from an African Perspective.Viruses · 2022Review
- The predicted impact of resource provisioning on the epidemiological responses of different parasites.The Journal of animal ecology · 2022Article
- The Ecology of Nipah Virus in Bangladesh: A Nexus of Land-Use Change and Opportunistic Feeding Behavior in Bats.Viruses · 2021Article
- Applied ecoimmunology: using immunological tools to improve conservation efforts in a changing world.Conservation physiology · 2021Article
- Nipah virus dynamics in bats and implications for spillover to humans.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Reframing conservation physiology to be more inclusive, integrative, relevant and forward-looking: reflections and a horizon scan.Conservation physiology · 2020Article
- Ecological interventions to prevent and manage zoonotic pathogen spillover.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Review
- Habitat fragmentation is associated with dietary shifts and microbiota variability in common vampire bats.Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
- Diet in the Driving Seat: Natural Diet-Immunity-Microbiome Interactions in Wild Fish.Frontiers in immunology · 2019Article
- Assessing the direct and indirect effects of food provisioning and nutrient enrichment on wildlife infectious disease dynamics.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Review
- Anthropogenic resource subsidies and host-parasite dynamics in wildlife.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Article
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Abstract
Human-provided resource subsidies for wildlife are diverse, common and have profound consequences for wildlife-pathogen interactions, as demonstrated by papers in this themed issue spanning empirical, theoretical and management perspectives from a range of study systems. Contributions cut across scales of organization, from the within-host dynamics of immune function, to population-level impacts on parasite transmission, to landscape- and regional-scale patterns of infection. In this concluding paper, we identify common threads and key findings from author contributions, including the consequences of resource subsidies for (i) host immunity; (ii) animal aggregation and contact rates; (iii) host movement and landscape-level infection patterns; and (iv) interspecific contacts and cross-species transmission. Exciting avenues for future work include studies that integrate mechanistic modelling and empirical approaches to better explore cross-scale processes, and experimental manipulations of food resources to quantify host and pathogen responses. Work is also needed to examine evolutionary responses to provisioning, and ask how diet-altered changes to the host microbiome influence infection processes. Given the massive public health and conservation implications of anthropogenic resource shifts, we end by underscoring the need for practical recommendations to manage supplemental feeding practices, limit human-wildlife conflicts over shared food resources and reduce cross-species transmission risks, including to humans.This article is part of the theme issue 'Anthropogenic resource subsidies and host-parasite dynamics in wildlife'.
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