Implications of global climate change for natural resource damage assessment, restoration, and rehabilitationJason R Rohr
Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
Environ Toxicol Chem 32:93-101. 2013
..We believe that adoption of these recommendations will lead to a more efficacious NRDAR process, despite the challenges posed by climate change...
- Linking global climate and temperature variability to widespread amphibian declines putatively caused by disease
Jason R Rohr
Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:8269-74. 2010
..These results suggest that changes to temperature variability associated with climate change might be as significant to biodiversity losses and disease emergence as changes to mean temperature...
- A qualitative meta-analysis reveals consistent effects of atrazine on freshwater fish and amphibians
Jason R Rohr
Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33620, USA
Environ Health Perspect 118:20-32. 2010
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Parasites, info-disruption, and the ecology of fearJason R Rohr
Department of Biology, University of South Florida, 110 SCA Building, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
Oecologia 159:447-54. 2009
..Consequently, we call for a greater integration of parasites into research on the ecology of fear and trait-mediated indirect effects...
- Evaluating the links between climate, disease spread, and amphibian declines
Jason R Rohr
Department of Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:17436-41. 2008
..Although climate change is likely to play an important role in worldwide amphibian declines, more convincing evidence is needed of a causal link...
- Agrochemicals increase trematode infections in a declining amphibian species
Jason R Rohr
Biology Department, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33620, USA
Nature 455:1235-9. 2008
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Understanding the net effects of pesticides on amphibian trematode infectionsJason R Rohr
Department of Biology, 110 SCA Building, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33620, USA
Ecol Appl 18:1743-53. 2008
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- Frontiers in climate change-disease research
Jason R Rohr
University of South Florida, Department of Integrative Biology, 4202 East Fowler Ave, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
Trends Ecol Evol 26:270-7. 2011
..Finally, although we emphasize host-parasite interactions, we also highlight the applicability of these points to climate-change effects on species interactions in general...
- Lack of direct effects of agrochemicals on zoonotic pathogens and fecal indicator bacteria
Zachery R Staley
Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 78:8146-50. 2012
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- Does the early frog catch the worm? Disentangling potential drivers of a parasite age-intensity relationship in tadpoles
Thomas R Raffel
Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
Oecologia 165:1031-42. 2011
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- Parasitism in a community context: trait-mediated interactions with competition and predation
Thomas R Raffel
Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33620, USA
Ecology 91:1900-7. 2010
..These results highlight the importance of accounting for trait-mediated effects, host plasticity, and exposure vs. susceptibility in parasite ecology...
- Fungicide-induced declines of freshwater biodiversity modify ecosystem functions and services
Taegan A McMahon
Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
Ecol Lett 15:714-22. 2012
..This work emphasises the need to re-evaluate the safety of chlorothalonil and to further link anthropogenic-induced changes in biodiversity to altered ecosystem functions...
- Aquatic herbicide exposure increases salamander desiccation risk eight months later in a terrestrial environment
Jason R Rohr
Department of Biology, University of Kentucky, 101 Morgan Building, Lexington, Kentucky 40506 0225, USA
Environ Toxicol Chem 24:1253-8. 2005
..These results emphasize the importance of considering both latent and cumulative effects of temporally linked stressors in ecotoxicology...
- The fungicide chlorothalonil is nonlinearly associated with corticosterone levels, immunity, and mortality in amphibians
Taegan A McMahon
Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33620, USA
Environ Health Perspect 119:1098-103. 2011
..Contaminants have been implicated in declines of amphibians, a taxon with vital systems similar to those of humans. However, many chemicals have not been thoroughly tested on amphibians or do not directly kill them...
- Insecticides reduce survival and the expression of traits associated with carnivory of carnivorous plants
David E Jennings
Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
Ecotoxicology 21:569-75. 2012
..Given the effects we observed in the present study, we suggest that the use of insecticides should be carefully managed in areas containing vulnerable carnivorous plant species...
- Test of direct and indirect effects of agrochemicals on the survival of fecal indicator bacteria
Zachery R Staley
Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 77:8765-74. 2011
..coli by altering phytoplankton and periphyton communities. These results improve our understanding of the influence of agricultural practices on FIB densities in water bodies impacted by agricultural runoff...
- What drives chytrid infections in newt populations? Associations with substrate, temperature, and shade
Thomas R Raffel
Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida, 4202 E Fowler Avenue, SCA 110, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
Ecohealth 7:526-36. 2010
..Though correlational, these results add to a growing body of evidence suggesting that environmental temperature is an important driver of Bd infection dynamics...
- Lack of pesticide toxicity to Echinostoma trivolvis eggs and miracidia
Thomas R Raffel
Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33620, USA
J Parasitol 95:1548-51. 2009
..We found no evidence of biologically relevant effects of these pesticides at ecologically relevant concentrations...
- Chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis has nonamphibian hosts and releases chemicals that cause pathology in the absence of infection
Taegan A McMahon
Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 110:210-5. 2013
..dendrobatidis releases a chemical that can cause host pathology, even in the absence of infection. Managing these biological reservoirs for B. dendrobatidis and identifying this chemical might provide new hope for imperiled amphibians...
- Selecting for tolerance against pathogens and herbivores to enhance success of reintroduction and translocation
Matthew D Venesky
Department of Integrative Biology, The University of South Florida, 4202 East Fowler Avenue, SCA 110, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
Conserv Biol 26:586-92. 2012
..Selecting for tolerance may offer a promising tool to rescue hosts species from invasive natural enemies as well as new natural enemies associated with climate change-induced range shifts...
- Living fast and dying of infection: host life history drives interspecific variation in infection and disease risk
Pieter T J Johnson
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Ecol Lett 15:235-42. 2012
..Broader integration between life history theory and disease ecology can aid in identifying both reservoir hosts and species at risk of disease-driven declines...
- Importance of dispersal and thermal environment for mycorrhizal communities: lessons from Yellowstone National Park
Ylva Lekberg
Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717, USA
Ecology 92:1292-302. 2011
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- Individual and combined effects of multiple pathogens on Pacific treefrogs
John M Romansic
Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
Oecologia 166:1029-41. 2011
..We suggest further research on the influence of multi-pathogen assemblages on amphibians, particularly under a variety of ecological conditions and with a wider diversity of hosts and pathogens...
- The effect of agrochemicals on indicator bacteria densities in outdoor mesocosms
Zachery R Staley
Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
Environ Microbiol 12:3150-8. 2010
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- Parasite age-intensity relationships in red-spotted newts: does immune memory influence salamander disease dynamics?
Thomas R Raffel
Department of Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
Int J Parasitol 39:231-41. 2009
..Our results suggest that the acquired immune response of newts is sufficient to influence the dynamics of at least some parasites...
- Parasites as predators: unifying natural enemy ecology
Thomas R Raffel
Department of Biology, University of South Florida, 4202 E Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
Trends Ecol Evol 23:610-8. 2008
..We suggest that greater unification of predator-prey and parasite-host ecology would foster advances in both fields...
- The effects of anthropogenic global changes on immune functions and disease resistance
Lynn B Martin
Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1195:129-48. 2010
..In sum, we advocate integrative, multidisciplinary work at diverse spatial and temporal scales to assess and prevent anthropogenic global changes from further compromising animal immune functions...
- Evidence for competition between carnivorous plants and spiders
David E Jennings
Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
Proc Biol Sci 277:3001-8. 2010
..In the laboratory, our experiment revealed that spiders can significantly reduce sundew fitness. Our findings suggest that members of the plant and animal kingdoms can and do compete...
- Optimal digestion theory does not predict the effect of pathogens on intestinal plasticity
Matthew D Venesky
Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
Biol Lett 9:20130038. 2013
..One explanation of why tadpoles with higher Bd loads have shorter relative intestinal lengths is that they divert energy from maintaining intestinal and overall growth towards anti-parasite defences...
- Do parasitic trematode cercariae demonstrate a preference for susceptible host species?
Brittany F Sears
Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America
PLoS ONE 7:e51012. 2012
..Parasite preferences for hosts belie the common assumption of disease models that parasites seek and infect hosts at random...
- The economy of inflammation: when is less more?
Brittany F Sears
University of South Florida, Department of Integrative Biology, Tampa, USA
Trends Parasitol 27:382-7. 2011
..Testable predictions, both within and among host species, are presented for this hypothesis...
- Lethal and sublethal effects of atrazine, carbaryl, endosulfan, and octylphenol on the streamside salamander (Ambystoma barbouri)
Jason R Rohr
Department of Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506 0225, USA
Environ Toxicol Chem 22:2385-92. 2003
..More studies are needed that concurrently examine the effect of multiple contaminants on amphibians so we can better identify effective mitigating measures...
