Peter D Walsh

Summary

Affiliation: Princeton University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Potential for Ebola transmission between gorilla and chimpanzee social groups
    Peter D Walsh
    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
    Am Nat 169:684-9. 2007
  2. ncbi A rant on infectious disease and ape research priorities
    Peter D Walsh
    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
    Am J Primatol 70:719-21. 2008
  3. ncbi Catastrophic ape decline in western equatorial Africa
    Peter D Walsh
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Guyot Hall, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA
    Nature 422:611-4. 2003
  4. ncbi Ebola outbreak killed 5000 gorillas
    Magdalena Bermejo
    Ecosystèmes Forestiers d Afrique Centrale ECOFAC, Box Postale 15115 Libreville, Gabon
    Science 314:1564. 2006
  5. ncbi Wave-like spread of Ebola Zaire
    Peter D Walsh
    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Primatology, Leipzig, Germany
    PLoS Biol 3:e371. 2005
  6. ncbi Recent common ancestry of Ebola Zaire virus found in a bat reservoir
    Roman Biek
    Center for Disease Ecology, Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
    PLoS Pathog 2:e90. 2006
  7. ncbi Manipulating decay time for efficient large-mammal density estimation: gorillas and dung height
    Hjalmar S Kuehl
    Department of Primatology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig 04103, Germany
    Ecol Appl 17:2403-14. 2007
  8. ncbi Pandemic human viruses cause decline of endangered great apes
    Sophie Köndgen
    Robert Koch Institut, Nordufer 20, D 13353 Berlin, Germany
    Curr Biol 18:260-4. 2008
  9. ncbi Action needed to prevent extinctions caused by disease
    Michael Hoffmann
    Nature 454:159. 2008

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Publications9

  1. ncbi Potential for Ebola transmission between gorilla and chimpanzee social groups
    Peter D Walsh
    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
    Am Nat 169:684-9. 2007
    ..These observations support a reassessment of ape-to-ape transmission as an amplifier of Ebola outbreaks...
  2. ncbi A rant on infectious disease and ape research priorities
    Peter D Walsh
    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
    Am J Primatol 70:719-21. 2008
  3. ncbi Catastrophic ape decline in western equatorial Africa
    Peter D Walsh
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Guyot Hall, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA
    Nature 422:611-4. 2003
    ..Without aggressive investments in law enforcement, protected area management and Ebola prevention, the next decade will see our closest relatives pushed to the brink of extinction...
  4. ncbi Ebola outbreak killed 5000 gorillas
    Magdalena Bermejo
    Ecosystèmes Forestiers d Afrique Centrale ECOFAC, Box Postale 15115 Libreville, Gabon
    Science 314:1564. 2006
    ..The lag between neighboring gorilla groups in mortality onset was close to the ZEBOV disease cycle length, evidence that group-to-group transmission has amplified gorilla die-offs...
  5. ncbi Wave-like spread of Ebola Zaire
    Peter D Walsh
    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Primatology, Leipzig, Germany
    PLoS Biol 3:e371. 2005
    ..Controlling the impact of Ebola on wild apes and human populations may be more feasible than previously recognized...
  6. ncbi Recent common ancestry of Ebola Zaire virus found in a bat reservoir
    Roman Biek
    Center for Disease Ecology, Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
    PLoS Pathog 2:e90. 2006
  7. ncbi Manipulating decay time for efficient large-mammal density estimation: gorillas and dung height
    Hjalmar S Kuehl
    Department of Primatology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig 04103, Germany
    Ecol Appl 17:2403-14. 2007
    ..Further research is necessary to evaluate whether the temporal bias inherent in such an approach is small enough to ignore, given the 10-20-fold increases in precision promised by a PDR approach...
  8. ncbi Pandemic human viruses cause decline of endangered great apes
    Sophie Köndgen
    Robert Koch Institut, Nordufer 20, D 13353 Berlin, Germany
    Curr Biol 18:260-4. 2008
    ..These observations illustrate the challenge of maximizing the benefit of research and tourism to great apes while minimizing the negative side effects...
  9. ncbi Action needed to prevent extinctions caused by disease
    Michael Hoffmann
    Nature 454:159. 2008