Publications

  • Tad Dallas, Colin Carlson, Patrick R. Stephens, Sadie Jane Ryan, David Onstad. (2021) insectDisease: programmatic access to the Ecological Database of the World’s Insect Pathogens. EcoEvoRix published Oct. 2021. DOI 10.32942/osf.io/yd3x5
  • Stephens, Patrick R., N. Gottdenker, A. M. Schatz, J. P. Schmidt, and John M. Drake. (2021) Characteristics of the 100 largest modern zoonotic disease outbreaks. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 376: 20200535.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0535
  • Dallas, Tad A., and Pedro Jordano. (2021) Spatial variation in species’ roles in host–helminth networks. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 376: 20200361. doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0361 **
  • Gougherty, Andrew V., and T. Jonathan Davies. (2021) Towards a phylogenetic ecology of plant pests and pathogens. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 376: 20200359. doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0359**
  • Pfenning-Butterworth, Alaina C., T. Jonathan Davies and Clayton E. Cressler. (2021) Identifying co-phylogenetic hotspots for zoonotic disease Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 376: 20200363. doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0363
  • Majewska, Ania A., Tao Huang, Barbara A. Han, and John M. Drake. (2021) Predictors of zoonotic potential in helminths. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 376: 20200360 376: 20200356. doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0360**
  • Morales-Castilla, Ignacio, Paula Pappalardo, Maxwell J. Farrell, A. Alonso Aguirre, Shan Huang, Alyssa-Lois M. Gehman, Tad Dallas, Dominique Gravel, and T. Jonathan Davies. (2021) Forecasting parasite sharing under climate change. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 376: 20200360. doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0360
  • Farrell, Maxwell J., Andrew W. Park, Clayton E. Cressler, Tad Dallas, Shan Huang , Nicole Mideo, Ignacio Morales-Castilla, T. Jonathan Davies T. Jonathan and Patrick R. Stephens. (2021) The ghost of hosts past: impacts of host extinction on parasite specificity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 376 20200351 doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0351
  • Herrera James P., James Moody and Charles L. Nunn. (2021) Predictions of primate–parasite coextinction. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 376: 20200355. doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0355
  • Poulin, Robert. (2021) Functional biogeography of parasite traits: hypotheses and evidence. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 376: 20200365. doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0365**
  • Huang, Shan, Maxwell Farrell, and Patrick R. Stephens. (2021) Infectious disease macroecology: parasite diversity and dynamics across the globe. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 376: 20200350. doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0350
  • Teitelbaum, C.S., C. R. Amoroso, S. Huang, T. J. Davies, J. Rushmore, J. M. Drake, P. R. Stephens, J. E. Byers, A. A. Majewska and C. L. Nunn. (2020) A comparison of diversity estimators applied to a database of host–parasite associations. Ecography 43: 1–13. doi: 10.1111/ecog.5143.
  • Pappalardo, P; I. Morales-Castilla, A. Park, S. Huang,J. P. Schmidt, P. R. Stephens. (2019). Mapping global patterns of parasite diversity.  Global Ecology and Biogeography 29:182–193. doi.org/10.1111/geb.13008.
  • Schmidt JP, Maher S, Drake JM, Huang T, Farrell M, Han B. 2019. Ecological indicators of mammal exposure to Ebolavirus.  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 374: 20180337. doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0337.
  • Park, A. W. 2019. Food web structure selects for parasite host range. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 286: 20191277. doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1277.
  • Park, A. W. (2019) Phylogenetic aggregation increases zoonotic potential of mammalian viruses. Biology Letters. 15: 20190668. doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0668.
  • Stephens, P. R., Altizer, S., Ezenwa, V. O., Gittleman, J. L., Moan, E., Han, B., Huang, S. & Pappalardo, P (2019). Parasite sharing in wild ungulates and their predators: effects of phylogeny, range overlap, and trophic links.  Journal of Animal Ecology. 88:1017-1028. doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12987. Presentation at 2018 Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology.
  • Schmidt JP, Maher S, Drake JM, Huang T, Farrell M, Han B (2019). Ecological indicators of mammal exposure to Ebolavirus.  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.  374: 20180337. doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0337
  • Park, A. W. (2019). Food web structure selects for parasite host range.  Proceedings of the Royal Society B.  286: 20191277. doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1277.
  • Herrera, J. P., Chakraborty, D., Rushmore, J., Altizer, S., & Nunn, C. (2019). The changing ecology of primate parasites: Insights from wild‐captive comparisons.  American Journal of Primatology. 81: e22991. doi: 10.1002/ajp.22991.  
  • Dallas, T, BA Han, CL Nunn, AW Park, PR Stephens, and JM Drake (2019). Host traits associated with species roles in parasite sharing networks.  Oikos. 128  23-32. doi.org/10.1111/oik.05602
  • Byers, J. E., Schmidt, J. P., Pappalardo, P., Haas, S. E., & Stephens, P. R (2019). What factors explain the geographical range of mammalian parasites?.  Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 286:  20190673. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.0673
  • Dallas, T. A., A. A. Aguirre, S. Budischak, C. Carlson, V. O. Ezenwa, B. A. Han, S. Huang, P. R. Stephens (2018). Gauging support for macroecological patterns in helminth parasites.  Global Ecology and Biogeography. 27: 1437-1447.  doi.org/10.1111/geb.12819.
  • Dallas, T. A., A. Gehman, M. Farrell (2018). Variable bibliographic database access could limit reproducibility.  BioScience. 68: 552-553.  doi:10.1093/biosci/biy074.
  • Teitelbaum, C.S., Huang, S., Hall, R.J., and Altizer S.  (2018) Migratory behaviour predicts greater parasite diversity in ungulates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285:1-8. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.0089. Power Point Summary.
  • Dallas, T., and T. Poisot. (2018) Compositional turnover in host and parasite communities does not change network structure. Ecography 40: 1-9. doi: 10.1111
  • Park. A. W., M. J. Farrel, J. P. Schmidt, S. Huang, T. A. Dallas, P. Pappalardo, J. M. Drake, P. R. Stephens, R. Poulin, C. L. Nunn, T. J. Davies. (2018) Characterizing parasite generalism illuminates patterns of host-parasite associations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.2613.
  • Dallas, T., S. Huang, C. Nunn, A. W. Park, and J. M. Drake (2017) Estimating parasite host range.  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284: rspb 2017:1250. doi: 10.1098.
  • Stephens, P. R.,  P. Pappalardo, S. Huang, J. Byers, R. Critchlow, M. J. Farrel, A. Gehman, R. Ghai, S. Haas. B. Han, J. P. Schmidt, S. Altizer, V. Ezenwa, and C. Nunn. (2017)  Global mammal parasite database v. 2.0.  Ecology doi: 1002/ecy.1799.
  • Dallas, T., A. W. Park, J. M. Drake (2017) Predicting cryptic links in host-parasite networks.  PLOS Computational Biology. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005557
  • Stephens, P. R., S. Altizer, K. F. Smith, A. Aguirre, J. H. Brown, S. A. Budischack, J. E. Byers, R. Critchlow, J. T. Davies, J. M. Drake, V. O. Ezenwa, M. J. Farrell, J. L. Gittleman, B. A. Han, S. Huang, R. A. Hutchinson, P. Johnson, C. L. Nunn, D. Onstad, A. Park, R. Poulin, G. M. Vazquez-Prokopec, J. P. Schmidt (2016) The macroecology of infectious disease: a new perspective on global-scale drivers of pathogen distributions and impacts. Ecology Letters doi: 10.1111/ele.12644.
  • Johnson P. T. J., C. L. Wood, M. B. Joseph, D. L. Preston, S. E. Haas, and Y. P. Springer (2016) Habitat heterogeneity drives the host diversity-begets-parasite diversity relationship: evidence from experimental and field studies.  Ecology Letters doi: 10.1111/ele.12609
  • Han, B. A. Han, A. M. Kramer, and J. M. Drake (2016) Global Trends in Zoonotic Disease in Mammals.  Trends in Parisitology. doi:10.1016/j.pt.2016.04.007 Power Point Summary
  • Huang, S., Roy, K. Valentine, J. W. and Jablonski, D. (2015) Convergence, divergence, and parallelism in marine biodiversity trends: Integrating present-day and fossil data. PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1412219112
  • Huang, S., Drake, J. M., Gittleman, J. L. and Altizer, S. (2015) Parasite diversity declines with host evolutionary distinctiveness: a global scale analysis of carnivores. Evolution doi: 10.1111/evo.12611
  • Farrell, M., P. R. Stephens, T. J. Davies. (2016)  Response to Strona & Fattorini: Are generalist parasites being lost from their hosts? Journal of Animal Ecology doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12470
  • Farrell M.J., P. R. Stephens, L. Berrang-Ford, J. L. Gittleman, T. J. Davies (2015) The path to host extinction can lead to loss of generalist parasites. Journal of Animal Ecology doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12342
  • Suzán, G., G. E. García‐Peña, I. Castro‐Arellano, O. Rico, A. V. Rubio, M. J. Tolsá, B. Roche, B., P. R. Hosseini, A. Rizzoli, K. A. Murray,  and C. Zambrana‐Torrelio (2015) Metacommunity and phylogenetic structure determine wildlife and zoonotic infectious disease patterns in time and space. Ecology and Evolution doi: 10.1002/ece3.1404

** RCN affiliated: not developed with direct RCN financial support. However, led by RCN members, presented at the final virtual RCN meeting in Spring 2020 for member feedback, and included in the theme issue of Philosophical Transactions B “Infectious disease macroecology: parasite diversity and dynamics across the globe” published in Fall 2021 and edited by RCN members Stephens, Huang and Farrell.