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- PhD Ecology Cornell University
- Masters Ecology Cornell University
- Bachelors Biology Cornell University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Richard Simon Ostfeld is a Distinguished Senior Scientist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York. He is best known for his work on the ecology of Lyme disease, which he began studying while monitoring the abundance of small mammals in the forests of Cary Institute property in the early 1990s.
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Published Works
- Climate Warming and Disease Risks for Terrestrial and Marine Biota (2002) (2495)
- Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases (2010) (1521)
- Effects of species diversity on disease risk. (2006) (1257)
- The ecology of infectious disease: Effects of host diversity and community composition on Lyme disease risk (2003) (990)
- Climate Change and Infectious Diseases: From Evidence to a Predictive Framework (2013) (863)
- Spatial epidemiology: an emerging (or re-emerging) discipline. (2005) (721)
- Biodiversity and Disease Risk: the Case of Lyme Disease (2000) (633)
- BIODIVERSITY AND THE DILUTION EFFECT IN DISEASE ECOLOGY (2001) (498)
- Limiting Resources and Territoriality in Microtine Rodents (1985) (471)
- Climate, Deer, Rodents, and Acorns as Determinants of Variation in Lyme-Disease Risk (2006) (445)
- Chain reactions linking acorns to gypsy moth outbreaks and Lyme disease risk. (1998) (418)
- Of Mice and Mast Ecological connections in eastern deciduous forests (1996) (386)
- Effect of Forest Fragmentation on Lyme Disease Risk (2003) (361)
- A call to ecologists: measuring, analyzing, and managing ecosystem services (2005) (359)
- Effects of Host Diversity on Infectious Disease (2012) (353)
- The ecology of territoriality in small mammals. (1990) (352)
- Human health impacts of ecosystem alteration (2013) (333)
- The function of biodiversity in the ecology of vector-borne zoonotic diseases (2000) (330)
- Effects of rodents on survival of tree seeds and seedlings invading old fields (1997) (323)
- Biodiversity series: The function of biodiversity in the ecology of vector-borne zoonotic diseases (2000) (282)
- Are predators good for your health? Evaluating evidence for top-down regulation of zoonotic disease reservoirs (2004) (281)
- Emerging human infectious diseases and the links to global food production (2019) (278)
- Infectious Disease Ecology: Effects of Ecosystems on Disease and of Disease on Ecosystems (2010) (250)
- Climate, environmental and socio-economic change: weighing up the balance in vector-borne disease transmission (2015) (240)
- Hosts as ecological traps for the vector of Lyme disease (2009) (230)
- Biodiversity Loss Affects Global Disease Ecology (2009) (222)
- Climate change and Ixodes tick-borne diseases of humans (2015) (219)
- Impact of host community composition on Lyme disease risk. (2008) (216)
- Ecological correlates of risk and incidence of West Nile virus in the United States (2008) (204)
- COMMUNITY DISASSEMBLY, BIODIVERSITY LOSS, AND THE EROSION OF AN ECOSYSTEM SERVICE (2003) (202)
- Territoriality and mating system of California voles (1986) (201)
- Experimental Evidence for Reduced Rodent Diversity Causing Increased Hantavirus Prevalence (2009) (195)
- The Ecological Basis of Conservation: Heterogeneity, Ecosystems, and Biodiversity (1997) (188)
- Frontiers in research on biodiversity and disease. (2015) (185)
- Direct and indirect effects of masting on rodent populations and tree seed survival (2002) (183)
- Effects of environmental change on zoonotic disease risk: an ecological primer. (2014) (177)
- Conspicuous impacts of inconspicuous hosts on the Lyme disease epidemic (2008) (176)
- Effects of Meadow Vole Population Density on Tree Seedling Survival in Oil Fields (1993) (169)
- Crossing the Interspecies Barrier: Opening the Door to Zoonotic Pathogens (2014) (168)
- Multiple causes of variable tick burdens on small-mammal hosts. (2008) (162)
- Controlling Lyme disease by modifying the density and species composition of tick hosts (1995) (161)
- Investigating and Managing the Rapid Emergence of White‐Nose Syndrome, a Novel, Fatal, Infectious Disease of Hibernating Bats (2011) (158)
- Sexual Dimorphism in Size, Relative Size of Testes, and Mating Systems in North American Voles (1990) (157)
- Spatial Dynamics of Lyme Disease: A Review (2008) (150)
- SONGBIRD POPULATIONS IN FLUCTUATING ENVIRONMENTS: PREDATOR RESPONSES TO PULSED RESOURCES (2003) (147)
- Lyme Disease: The Ecology of a Complex System (2010) (145)
- New Directions in Conservation Medicine Applied Cases of Ecological Health (2012) (140)
- Sacred Cows and Sympathetic Squirrels: The Importance of Biological Diversity to Human Health (2006) (137)
- The relationship between habitat heterogeneity, space use, and demography in a population of California voles. (1985) (130)
- Conservation Medicine: Ecological Health in Practice (2002) (130)
- Biodiversity loss and the rise of zoonotic pathogens. (2009) (130)
- Numerical and behavioral effects within a pulse-driven system: consequences for shared prey. (2008) (126)
- NET EFFECTS OF LARGE MAMMALS ON ACACIA SEEDLING SURVIVAL IN AN AFRICAN SAVANNA (2004) (125)
- Laboratory and Field Evaluation of the Entomopathogenic Fungus Metarhizium anisopliae (Deuteromycetes) for Controlling Questing Adult Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) (2002) (124)
- DENSITY-DEPENDENT PROCESSES IN MEADOW VOLES: AN EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH' (1995) (119)
- Controlling Ticks and Tick-borne Zoonoses with Biological and Chemical Agents (2006) (117)
- Climate change and the distribution and intensity of infectious diseases. (2009) (116)
- Relationship between pace of life and immune responses in wild rodents (2012) (112)
- LONG‐TERM EFFECTS OF RODENT HERBIVORES ON TREE INVASION DYNAMICS ALONG FOREST–FIELD EDGES (2001) (109)
- Effects of acorn production and mouse abundance on abundance and Borrelia burgdorferi infection prevalence of nymphal Ixodes scapularis ticks. (2001) (108)
- Ecology of Lyme Disease: Habitat Associations of Ticks (Ixodes Scapularis) In a Rural Landscape (1995) (107)
- Co-Infection of Blacklegged Ticks with Babesia microti and Borrelia burgdorferi Is Higher than Expected and Acquired from Small Mammal Hosts (2014) (107)
- Life History and Demographic Drivers of Reservoir Competence for Three Tick-Borne Zoonotic Pathogens (2014) (103)
- THE ECOLOGY OF LYME-DISEASE RISK (1997) (98)
- Tick-borne disease risk in a forest food web. (2018) (98)
- NEIGHBORHOOD ANALYSES OF SMALL‐MAMMAL DYNAMICS: IMPACTS ON SEED PREDATION AND SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT (2004) (98)
- Temporal and spatial dynamics of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) in a rural landscape. (1996) (94)
- Nonviral vector-borne zoonoses associated with mammals in the United States (1995) (93)
- Reservoir Competence of Wildlife Host Species for Babesia microti (2012) (91)
- Infestation of Peromyscus leucopus and Tamias striatus by Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) in relation to the abundance of hosts and parasites. (1999) (89)
- Reservoir targeted vaccine against Borrelia burgdorferi: a new strategy to prevent Lyme disease transmission. (2014) (89)
- Causes and Consequences of Tick (Ixodes scapularis) Burdens on White-Footed Mice (Peromyscus leucopus) (1996) (88)
- Effects of host diversity on disease dynamics. (2008) (88)
- Foraging strategies and prey switching in the California sea otter (2004) (87)
- Responses of a small mammal community to heterogeneity along forest-old-field edges (1999) (84)
- Impact of the experimental removal of lizards on Lyme disease risk (2011) (83)
- Reservoir Competence of Vertebrate Hosts for Anaplasma phagocytophilum (2012) (82)
- Wood thrush nest success and post-fledging survival across a temporal pulse of small mammal abundance in an oak forest. (2008) (81)
- The Ecological Basis of Conservation (2012) (80)
- Estimating Reservoir Competence of Borrelia burgdorferi Hosts: Prevalence and Infectivity, Sensitivity, and Specificity (2008) (78)
- Spatial heterogeneity in predator activity, nest survivorship, and nest-site selection in two forest thrushes (2006) (76)
- Accelerated phenology of blacklegged ticks under climate warming (2015) (76)
- The fence effect reconsidered (1994) (72)
- WHAT IS THE BEST PREDICTOR OF ANNUAL LYME DISEASE INCIDENCE: WEATHER, MICE, OR ACORNS? (2005) (72)
- Space use and reproductive success in a population of meadow voles (1988) (72)
- Eastern chipmunks increase their perception of predation risk in response to titmouse alarm calls (2008) (72)
- Novel Organisms: Comparing Invasive Species, GMOs, and Emerging Pathogens (2013) (70)
- Factors influencing the distribution of larval blacklegged ticks on rodent hosts. (2003) (69)
- Impacts of biodiversity and biodiversity loss on zoonotic diseases (2021) (69)
- Extra-Large Body Size in California Voles: Causes and Fitness Consequences (1991) (69)
- Impacts of large herbivorous mammals on bird diversity and abundance in an African savanna (2008) (67)
- Quantifying dilution and amplification in a community of hosts for tick-borne pathogens. (2016) (65)
- Modeling the role of songbirds and rodents in the ecology of Lyme disease (2000) (65)
- The prevalence of zoonotic tick-borne pathogens in Ixodes scapularis collected in the Hudson Valley, New York State. (2014) (64)
- Isolation of deer tick virus (Powassan virus, lineage II) from Ixodes scapularis and detection of antibody in vertebrate hosts sampled in the Hudson Valley, New York State (2013) (63)
- Influence of hosts on the ecology of arboviral transmission: potential mechanisms influencing dengue, Murray Valley encephalitis, and Ross River virus in Australia. (2009) (63)
- Interactions between tick and transmitted pathogens evolved to minimise competition through nested and coherent networks (2015) (63)
- Borrelia burgdorferi has minimal impact on the Lyme disease reservoir host Peromyscus leucopus. (2011) (62)
- The impact of temperature and precipitation on blacklegged tick activity and Lyme disease incidence in endemic and emerging regions (2016) (62)
- Herbivory on Acacia seedlings in an East African savanna (2002) (62)
- EXPERIMENTAL REMOVAL OF STRONG AND WEAK PREDATORS: MICE AND CHIPMUNKS PREYING ON SONGBIRD NESTS (2001) (61)
- Partitioning the Aggregation of Parasites on Hosts into Intrinsic and Extrinsic Components via an Extended Poisson-Gamma Mixture Model (2011) (59)
- ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCES ENHANCE OCCURRENCE OF CUTANEOUS LEISHMANIASIS IN ISRAEL DESERTS: PATTERNS AND MECHANISMS (2003) (59)
- Abundance and Borrelia burgdorferi-infection Prevalence of Nymphal Ixodes scapularis Ticks along Forest–Field Edges (2007) (58)
- HABITAT HETEROGENEITY, DISPERSAL, AND LOCAL RISK OF EXPOSURE TO LYME DISEASE (1998) (57)
- Effects of density and season on the population rate of change in the meadow vole (1997) (56)
- Defining the Risk of Zika and Chikungunya Virus Transmission in Human Population Centers of the Eastern United States (2016) (55)
- Fluctuations and Constancy in Populations of Small Rodents (1988) (54)
- Effects of wildlife and cattle on tick abundance in central Kenya. (2013) (53)
- Muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus) Disturbance to Vegetation and Potential Net Nitrogen Mineralization and Nitrification Rates in a Freshwater Tidal Marsh (2000) (50)
- Data–model fusion to better understand emerging pathogens and improve infectious disease forecasting (2011) (50)
- Demographic Substructure in a California Vole Population Inhabiting a Patchy Environment (1986) (50)
- Coinfection of blacklegged ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) in Dutchess County, New York, with the agents of Lyme disease and human granulocytic ehrlichiosis. (1998) (49)
- Is biodiversity good for your health? (2015) (49)
- Defining the Scientific Issues (1997) (49)
- Influence of eutrophication on disease in aquatic ecosystems: patterns, processes, and predictions. (2010) (48)
- Climate change and species interactions: ways forward (2013) (48)
- Can integrating wildlife and livestock enhance ecosystem services in central Kenya (2017) (48)
- MODELING THE EFFECTS OF RESERVOIR COMPETENCE DECAY AND DEMOGRAPHIC TURNOVER IN LYME DISEASE ECOLOGY (2002) (47)
- Overwintering Survival of Nymphal Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) Under Natural Conditions (2012) (47)
- Conservation Finance: Moving beyond donor funding toward an investor-driven approach (2014) (46)
- Effects of stoat's presence and auditory cues indicating its presence on tree seedling predation by meadow voles (2000) (46)
- Sublethal Effects of Metarhizium anisopliae (Deuteromycetes) on Engorged Larval, Nymphal, and Adult Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) (2004) (45)
- Straw men don't get Lyme disease: response to Wood and Lafferty. (2013) (45)
- Ch. 9: Human Health. Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment (2014) (45)
- Occurrence and transmission efficiencies of Borrelia burgdorferi ospC types in avian and mammalian wildlife. (2014) (45)
- A PRESCRIPTION FOR LONGER LIFE? BOT FLY PARASITISM OF THE WHITE-FOOTED MOUSE (2005) (45)
- MICE IN SPACE: SPACE USE PREDICTS THE INTERACTION BETWEEN MICE AND SONGBIRDS (2003) (45)
- The effects of tree seed and seedling density on predation rates by rodents in old fields (1998) (43)
- Spatiotemporal variation in a Lyme disease host and vector: black-legged ticks on white-footed mice. (2001) (42)
- Spatio-temporal patterns in county-level incidence and reporting of Lyme disease in the northeastern United States, 1990–2000 (2007) (42)
- Is biodiversity bad for your health (2017) (42)
- 3 – Small-Mammal Herbivores in a Patchy Environment: Individual Strategies and Population Responses (1992) (41)
- On the Distinction between Female Defense and Resource Defense Polygyny (1987) (40)
- Competitive Interactions between Microtus californicus and Reithrodontomys megalotis during Two Peaks of Microtus Abundance (1984) (38)
- THE ROLE OF LIZARDS IN THE ECOLOGY OF LYME DISEASE IN TWO ENDEMIC ZONES OF THE NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES (2007) (37)
- Mammalian predator scent, vegetation cover and tree seedling predation by meadow voles (2002) (37)
- Prevalence of human-active and variant 1 strains of the tick-borne pathogen Anaplasma phagocytophilum in hosts and forests of eastern North America. (2014) (36)
- INVASIVE SHRUBS AND SONGBIRD NESTING SUCCESS: EFFECTS OF CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND PREDATOR ABUNDANCE (2005) (35)
- Consequences of integrating livestock and wildlife in an African savanna (2018) (35)
- Molting Success of Ixodes scapularis Varies among Individual Blood Meal Hosts and Species (2011) (35)
- Effectiveness of Metarhizium anisopliae (Deuteromycetes) against Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) engorging on Peromnyscus leucopus. (2005) (34)
- Tick‐, mosquito‐, and rodent‐borne parasite sampling designs for the National Ecological Observatory Network (2016) (34)
- Experimental analysis of aggression and spacing behavior in California voles (1985) (34)
- Sexual Dimorphism and Mating Systems in Voles (1993) (34)
- A Candide response to Panglossian accusations by Randolph and Dobson: biodiversity buffers disease (2013) (33)
- Environmental monitoring to enhance comprehension and control of infectious diseases. (2010) (33)
- Eavesdropping Squirrels Reduce Their Future Value of Food under the Perceived Presence of Cache Robbers (2008) (32)
- Recent Progress in Lyme Disease and Remaining Challenges (2021) (32)
- Effects of an invasive forest pathogen on abundance of ticks and their vertebrate hosts in a California Lyme disease focus (2010) (31)
- USE OF TRACK PLATES TO QUANTIFY PREDATION RISK AT SMALL SPATIAL SCALES (2005) (31)
- Potential effects of blood meal host on bacterial community composition in Ixodes scapularis nymphs. (2019) (31)
- Does social behavior drive vole cycles? An evaluation of competing models as they pertain to California voles (1988) (29)
- Infectious Disease Ecology (2010) (29)
- Does biodiversity protect humans against infectious disease? Comment. (2016) (29)
- Type 3 functional response of mice to gypsy moth pupae: is it stabilizing? (2004) (29)
- The year in ecology and conservation biology (2008) (28)
- Trojan Females and Judas Goats: Evolutionary Traps as Tools in Wildlife Management (2017) (28)
- FACTORS INFLUENCING VARIATION AMONG STATES IN THE NUMBER OF FEDERALLY LISTED MAMMALS IN THE UNITED STATES (1999) (27)
- PATCH SELECTION AND TREE-SEEDLING PREDATION BY RESIDENT VS. IMMIGRANT MEADOW VOLES (2000) (27)
- The tick biocontrol agent Metarhizium brunneum (= M. anisopliae) (strain F52) does not reduce non-target arthropods (2017) (27)
- Larval density and feeding success of Ixodes scapularis on two species of Peromyscus. (1995) (26)
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of tick-borne disease risk factors in residential yards, neighborhoods, and beyond (2019) (26)
- Sand Fly (Lutzomyia vexator) (Diptera: Psychodidae) Populations in Upstate New York: Abundance, Microhabitat, and Phenology (2004) (26)
- Community ecology meets epidemiology: the case of Lyme disease. (2006) (26)
- When is a parasite not a parasite? Effects of larval tick burdens on white-footed mouse survival. (2014) (26)
- Interactions between mammals and trees: predation on mammal-dispersed seeds and the effect of ambient food (2002) (25)
- Biodiversity loss and the ecology of infectious disease. (2017) (25)
- Effects of pathogens on terrestrial ecosystem function (2008) (24)
- Deer tick-transmitted zoonoses in the eastern United States. (2002) (24)
- The emergence of wildlife disease and the application of ecology. (2010) (24)
- Ticks as Soil-Dwelling Arthropods: An Intersection Between Disease and Soil Ecology (2019) (23)
- Impacts of an introduced forest pathogen on the risk of Lyme disease in California. (2012) (23)
- Quantifying a dynamic risk landscape: heterogeneous predator activity and implications for prey persistence. (2009) (23)
- Dilution effects in disease ecology (2021) (23)
- Ear Tagging Increases Tick (Ixodes dammini) Infestation Rates of White-Footed Mice (Peromyscus leucopus) (1993) (23)
- Red Queen communities. (2008) (23)
- Long-distance homing in meadow voles, Microtus pennsylvanicus (1996) (22)
- The Tick Project: Testing Environmental Methods of Preventing Tick-borne Diseases. (2018) (22)
- Integrative ecology and the dynamics of species in oak forests (1998) (22)
- Global ecological change and human health. (2002) (21)
- Pathogenicity of Metarhizium anisopliae (Deuteromycetes) and permethrin to Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) nymphs (2004) (20)
- Influences of Host Community Characteristics on Borrelia burgdorferi Infection Prevalence in Blacklegged Ticks (2017) (20)
- An Experimental Test of Competition among Mice, Chipmunks, and Squirrels in Deciduous Forest Fragments (2013) (20)
- LIMITED DISPERSAL AND HETEROGENEOUS PREDATION RISK SYNERGISTICALLY ENHANCE PERSISTENCE OF RARE PREY (2005) (20)
- The Behavioral Hierarchy of the Garden Snail Helix aspersa (1982) (19)
- Interactions Between Meadow Voles and White-Footed Mice at Forest—Oldfield Edges: Competition and Net Effects on Tree Invasion of Oldfields (1999) (19)
- Risk Factors for Bites and Diseases Associated With Black-Legged Ticks: A Meta-Analysis (2019) (19)
- Microtine Social Systems, Adaptation, and the Comparative Method (1990) (18)
- Spatial selection and inheritance: applying evolutionary concepts to population dynamics in heterogeneous space. (2007) (18)
- Microtine Social Systems, Adaptation, and the Comparative Method (1990) (18)
- The role of vector diversity in disease dynamics. (2010) (17)
- Linking disease and community ecology through behavioural indicators: immunochallenge of white-footed mice and its ecological impacts. (2011) (16)
- Ecological context of Lyme disease: biodiversity, habitat fragmentation, and risk of infection. (2002) (16)
- The roles of small rodents in creating patchy environments (1994) (15)
- Immunochallenge reduces risk sensitivity during foraging in white-footed mice (2012) (15)
- Effect of spatial scale and latitude on diversity–disease relationships (2019) (15)
- Effects of disease on keystone species, dominant species, and their communities. (2008) (15)
- Does biodiversity protect humans against infectious disease ? (2016) (15)
- It Takes a Community to Raise the Prevalence of a Zoonotic Pathogen (2011) (14)
- The Relationship Between Soil Arthropods and the Overwinter Survival of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) Under Manipulated Snow Cover (2015) (14)
- Bottlenecks in domestic animal populations can facilitate the emergence of Trypanosoma cruzi, the aetiological agent of Chagas disease (2015) (14)
- Do changes in female relatedness determine demographic patterns in microtine rodents (1992) (14)
- Topic modeling of major research themes in disease ecology of mammals (2019) (13)
- Parasites as weapons of mouse destruction. (2008) (13)
- Effects of a zoonotic pathogen, Borrelia burgdorferi, on the behavior of a key reservoir host (2018) (13)
- Experimental studies of interactions between wild turkeys and black-legged ticks. (1999) (13)
- Viewing Emerging Human Infectious Epidemics through the Lens of Invasion Biology (2021) (12)
- Effects of disease on community interactions and food web structure. (2008) (12)
- Tritrophic interactions between a fungal pathogen, a spider predator, and the blacklegged tick (2018) (12)
- Parasite and pathogen effects on ecosystem processes: A quantitative review (2020) (12)
- Complex interactions between seemingly unconnected phenomena determine risk of exposure to this expanding disease (2016) (12)
- Toward a Comprehensive Conservation Theory (1997) (12)
- Redefining disease emergence to improve prioritization and macro-ecological analyses (2015) (11)
- Understanding host-multipathogen systems: modeling the interaction between ecology and immunology. (2010) (11)
- Assessing Effectiveness of Recommended Residential Yard Management Measures Against Ticks (2019) (11)
- Effects of Tick-Control Interventions on Tick Abundance, Human Encounters with Ticks, and Incidence of Tickborne Diseases in Residential Neighborhoods, New York, USA (2022) (10)
- Modelling Transmission of Vector-Borne Pathogens Shows Complex Dynamics When Vector Feeding Sites Are Limited (2012) (10)
- Effects of Habitat Patchiness on Population Dynamics: A Modelling Approach (1992) (10)
- Of Mice and Men: Lyme Disease and Biodiversity (2014) (9)
- Vector-borne infections and health related to landscape changes. (2002) (9)
- Cattle and rainfall affect tick abundance in central Kenya (2017) (9)
- Ecological webs involving acorns and mice: basic research and its management implications. (2002) (8)
- Drew Harvell , and Marine Biota Climate Warming and Disease Risks for Terrestrial (2007) (8)
- A Community-Ecology Framework for Understanding Vector and Vector-Borne Disease Dynamics (2010) (8)
- Linking Human and Ecosystem Health on the Amazon Frontier (2002) (8)
- The community context of disease emergence: could changes in predation be a key driver? (2010) (8)
- Presence of Segmented Flavivirus Infections in North America (2020) (8)
- Variation in coexisting birds to exploit spatial heterogeneity in small mammal activity (2018) (8)
- The role of seasonality in vole cycles (1986) (8)
- Species that can make us ill thrive in human habitats (2020) (8)
- Effects of Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata) on Entomopathogenic Fungi (2011) (7)
- Presence of Segmented Flaviviruses in Wild Rodents, Pennsylvania, USA. (2020) (7)
- Biodiversity and ecosystem function: perspectives on disease (2009) (7)
- The year in ecology and conservation biology 2010. (2010) (7)
- The Effects of Bird Feeders on Lyme Disease Prevalence and Density of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) in a Residential Area of Dutchess County, New York (2003) (7)
- Not all nesting guild members are alike: nest predators and conspecific abundance differentially influence nest survival in the ground-nesting Ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapilla) and Veery (Catharus fuscescens) (2017) (7)
- Wildlife health, ecosystems, and rural livelihoods in Botswana. (2002) (6)
- Pulsed Resources and Community Responses (2007) (6)
- Research frontiers in ecological systems: evaluating the impacts of infectious disease on ecosystems. (2010) (6)
- Spatial and temporal patterns of the emerging tick-borne pathogen Borrelia miyamotoi in blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) in New York (2021) (6)
- Effects of prior population density on use of space by meadow voles, Microtus pennsylvanicus (1998) (5)
- Oh the Locusts Sang, Then They Dropped Dead (2004) (5)
- Reservoir Competence of Vertebrate Hosts for Anaplasma (2013) (5)
- Mast seeding and Lyme disease. (1998) (5)
- Measuring diving success of otters (1991) (5)
- Planetary Health and Infectious Disease (2020) (5)
- Resolved: emerging infections of humans can be controlled by ecological interventions. (2010) (4)
- Effects of weather variability on population dynamics of white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) and eastern chipmunks (Tamias striatus) (2018) (4)
- Global ecological integrity, global change, and public health. (2002) (4)
- Littje loggers make a big difference. (2002) (3)
- Predicting larval tick burden on white-footed mice with an artificial neural network (2019) (3)
- Relations of peri-residential temperature and humidity in tick-life-cycle-relevant time periods with human Lyme disease risk in Pennsylvania, USA. (2021) (3)
- Correction to: Systematic review and meta-analysis of tick-borne disease risk factors in residential yards, neighborhoods, and beyond (2019) (3)
- The Influence of Nearest Seed Neighbors on Seed Removal in Deciduous Forests (2012) (3)
- Tropical forests and child health. (2017) (3)
- A new genetic approach to distinguish strains of Anaplasma phagocytophilum that appear not to cause human disease. (2021) (3)
- An Exploratory Study on the Microbiome of Northern and Southern Populations of Ixodes scapularis Ticks Predicts Changes and Unique Bacterial Interactions (2021) (3)
- Ecotourism: Unforeseen effects on health. (2002) (2)
- Interactions between mammals and pathogens: an introduction (2015) (2)
- A Correction to “of Mice and Mast” (1996) (2)
- The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology. Preface. (2011) (2)
- Reply to De Coster et al.: Exploring the complexity of ecosystem–human health relationships (2014) (2)
- The ecology of an infectious coral disease in the Florida keys: from pathogens to politics. (2010) (2)
- Disease effects on landscape and regional systems: a resilience framework. (2008) (2)
- Where the Wild Things Aren't: Loss of Biodiversity, Emerging Infectious Diseases, and Implications for Diagnosticians. (2016) (2)
- Ecology of Lyme Disease (2021) (2)
- Effects of physical impairments on fitness correlates of the white-footed mouse, Peromyscus leucopus (2021) (1)
- Impacts Over Time of Neighborhood-Scale Interventions to Control Ticks and Tick-Borne Disease Incidence (2023) (1)
- Conservation Medicine: Ecologi- (2016) (1)
- EWS AND SYNTHES I S Effects of species diversity on disease risk (2006) (1)
- The Tick Project: Testing Environmental Methods of Preventing Tick-borne Diseases: (Trends in Parasitology Vol 34, 447-450 2018). (2018) (1)
- Population fluctuations and synanthropy explain transmission risk in rodent-borne zoonoses (2022) (1)
- The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology 2008. Preface. (2008) (1)
- The importance of interactions in the population ecology of the voleClethrionomys rufocanus (1998) (1)
- Human Infectious Diseases Through the Lens of Social Ecology (2008) (1)
- The second volume of The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology. Preface. (2009) (1)
- Isolation of deer tick virus (Powassan virus, lineage II) from Ixodes scapularis and detection of antibody in vertebrate hosts sampled in the Hudson Valley, New York State (2013) (1)
- Blacklegged tick population synchrony between oak forest and non‐oak forest (2021) (1)
- LYME DISEASE SPIROCHETE TRANSMISSION BETWEEN CO-FEEDING LARVAL AND NYMPHAL TICKS UNDER NATURAL CONDITIONS (2011) (0)
- lyme disease and biodiversity (2014) (0)
- Biodiversity and Human Health (2022) (0)
- Chapter 13 Disease Ecology (2012) (0)
- Special Issue: The year in ecology and conservation biology 2008. (2008) (0)
- Lee, A. K., and A. Cockburn. Evolutionary Ecology of Marsupials. Monographs on marsupial biology, Cambridge Univ. Press, viii + 274 pp., illustrated, 1985. Price (hardbound), $54.50 (1986) (0)
- Ticks as novel sentinels to monitor environmental levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). (2021) (0)
- Preface (2011) (0)
- Off‐host survival of blacklegged ticks in eastern North America: A multistage, multiyear, multisite study (2023) (0)
- Editorial. Special Section in honor of Dr. William Z. Lidicker, Jr. (2022) (0)
- Parasitology Is Dead. Long Live Parasitology (2010) (0)
- Preface (2009) (0)
- Publisher's note (2014) (0)
- THE USE OF BIOLOGICAL CONTROLS FOR VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES : THE CASE OF GUINEA FOWL AND LYME DISEASE (2011) (0)
- Book Review (2004) (0)
- Obituary: Dr. William Z. Lidicker, Jr. (1932–2022) (2022) (0)
- Deployment of a reservoir-targeted vaccine against Borreliella burgdorferi reduces the prevalence of Babesia microti coinfection in Ixodes scapularis ticks. (2022) (0)
- Preface (2008) (0)
- Infection and ecology: Calomys callosus, Machupo virus, and acute hemorrhagic fever. (2010) (0)
- The ecology of infectious diseases: an homage to multi-factor perspectives (2022) (0)
- Spatial and temporal patterns of the emerging tick-borne pathogen Borrelia miyamotoi in blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) in New York (2021) (0)
- Book Review:The Biology of Disease Vectors. Barry J. Beaty, William C. Marquardt (1997) (0)
- Direct and indirect effects of masting on rodent populations and tree seed survivial [Peromyscus, Clethrionomys, Tamias] (2002) (0)
- The impact of temperature and precipitation on blacklegged tick activity and Lyme disease incidence in endemic and emerging regions (2016) (0)
- Estimates of wildlife species richness, occupancy, and habitat preference in a human-impacted landscape in New York State (2022) (0)
- Estimates of wildlife species richness, occupancy, and habitat preference in a residential landscape in New York State (2022) (0)
- MAMMALS IN THE UNITED STATES (2016) (0)
- Effects of Neighborhood-Scale Acaricidal Treatments on Infection Prevalence of Blacklegged Ticks (Ixodes scapularis) with Three Zoonotic Pathogens (2023) (0)
- BIODIVERSITY AND HEALTH: PERSPECTIVES FOR THE FUTURE (2006) (0)
- Systematic Reviews andMeta- and Pooled Analyses Risk Factors for Bites and Diseases AssociatedWith Black-Legged Ticks: AMeta-Analysis (2019) (0)
- Reproductive asynchrony and its potential role in the mating system of meadow voles (1993) (0)
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