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The ecology of climate change and infectious diseasesKevin D Lafferty
Western Ecological Research Center, U S Geological Survey, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
Ecology 90:888-900. 2009..Many factors can affect infectious disease, and some may overshadow the effects of climate...
Parasitic castration: the evolution and ecology of body snatchersKevin D Lafferty
US Geological Survey Western Ecological Research Center, c o Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Trends Parasitol 25:564-72. 2009..These parasites can be abundant and can substantially depress host density. Host populations subject to high rates of parasitic castration appear to respond by maturing more rapidly...- Ecosystem energetic implications of parasite and free-living biomass in three estuariesArmand M Kuris
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology and Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
Nature 454:515-8. 2008..This biomass and productivity of parasites implies a profound role for infectious processes in these estuaries... 
A common scaling rule for abundance, energetics, and production of parasitic and free-living speciesRyan F Hechinger
Marine Science Institute and Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Science 333:445-8. 2011....- Trematodes indicate animal biodiversity in the Chilean intertidal and Lake TanganyikaRyan F Hechinger
Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
J Parasitol 94:966-8. 2008..This further supports the notion that trematodes in first intermediate hosts can serve as bioindicators of the condition of free-living animal communities in diverse ecosystems... - Can parasites be indicators of free-living diversity? Relationships between species richness and the abundance of larval trematodes and of local benthos and fishesRyan F Hechinger
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 9610, USA
Oecologia 151:82-92. 2007..The results support further exploration of trematodes as bioindicators of diversity and abundance of animal communities... - Endangered light-footed clapper rail affects parasite community structure in coastal wetlandsKathleen L Whitney
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
Ecol Appl 17:1694-702. 2007.... - Diversity increases biomass production for trematode parasites in snailsRyan F Hechinger
Marine Science Institute, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 6150, USA
Proc Biol Sci 275:2707-14. 2008.... - Parasites reduce food web robustness because they are sensitive to secondary extinction as illustrated by an invasive estuarine snailKevin D Lafferty
U S Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, c o Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 364:1659-63. 2009..The hypothetical invasion also significantly reduced the connectance of the web because the loss of 17 native trematode species eliminated many links... - Parasites dominate food web linksKevin D Lafferty
Western Ecological Research Center, U S Geological Survey, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:11211-6. 2006..These results show that food webs are very incomplete without parasites. Most notably, recognition of parasite links may have important consequences for ecosystem stability because they can increase connectance and nestedness... - Reef fishes have higher parasite richness at unfished Palmyra Atoll compared to fished Kiritimati IslandKevin D Lafferty
Western Ecological Research Center, US Geological Survey, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Ecohealth 5:338-45. 2008..Most notably, the lower abundances of larval shark tapeworms at Kiritimati presumably reflect the fact that fishing has greatly depleted sharks there in comparison to Palmyra... - Host diversity begets parasite diversity: bird final hosts and trematodes in snail intermediate hostsRyan F Hechinger
Marine Science Institute and the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 93106 2774, USA
Proc Biol Sci 272:1059-66. 2005..Such community-level interactions have rarely been demonstrated and have implications for community theory, epidemiological theory and ecosystem management... - An experimental evaluation of host specificity: the role of encounter and compatibility filters for a rhizocephalan parasite of crabsArmand M Kuris
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Int J Parasitol 37:539-45. 2007..The closure of both filters in nature explains the failure of this potential host-parasite interaction, an outcome favored by selection in both host and parasite... - Parasites in food webs: the ultimate missing linksKevin D Lafferty
Western Ecological Research Center, U S Geological Survey c o Marine Science Institute, UC, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Ecol Lett 11:533-46. 2008.... - Stomach nematodes (Mastophorus muris) in rats (Rattus rattus) are associated with coconut (Cocos nucifera) habitat at Palmyra AtollKevin D Lafferty
Western Ecological Research Center, U S Geological Survey, c o Marine Science Institute, UC Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
J Parasitol 96:16-20. 2010..Thus, nematodes were much more abundant in rats from sites dominated by coconut trees (Cocos nucifera). Coconut trees may also be an introduced species at Palmyra Atoll... - Comparing mechanisms of host manipulation across host and parasite taxaKevin D Lafferty
Western Ecological Research Center, US Geological Survey, USA
J Exp Biol 216:56-66. 2013..The interconnections between these systems make it difficult to isolate specific mechanisms of host behavioral manipulation... - Can the common brain parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, influence human culture?Kevin D Lafferty
Western Ecological Research Centre, United States Geological Survey, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Proc Biol Sci 273:2749-55. 2006..gondii, though the results only explain a fraction of the variation in two of the four cultural dimensions, suggesting that if T. gondii does influence human culture, it is only one among many factors... - An efficient strategy to estimate intensity and prevalence: sampling metacercariae in fishesJenny C Shaw
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
J Parasitol 91:515-21. 2005..This efficient subsampling procedure decreased the overall processing time per host by up to 91% while obtaining accurate (R2 > 0.8) estimates for both prevalence and intensity... - Look what the cat dragged in: do parasites contribute to human cultural diversity?Kevin D Lafferty
Western Ecological Research Center, United States Geological Survey, c o Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Behav Processes 68:279-82. 2005 - Introduced species and their missing parasitesMark E Torchin
Marine Science Institute and Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
Nature 421:628-30. 2003....