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Projected impacts of climate and land-use change on the global diversity of birds by Jetz, Walter, Wilcove, David S, Dobson, Andrew P

“…Over the past few decades, land-use and climate change have led to substantial range contractions and species extinctions. Even more dramatic changes to global…”
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Parasites Dominate Food Web Links by Lafferty, Kevin D., Dobson, Andrew P., Kuris, Armand M.

“…Parasitism is the most common animal lifestyle, yet food webs rarely include parasites. The few earlier studies have indicated that including parasites leads…”
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Parasites affect food web structure primarily through increased diversity and complexity by Dunne, Jennifer A, Lafferty, Kevin D, Dobson, Andrew P, Hechinger, Ryan F, Kuris, Armand M, Martinez, Neo D, McLaughlin, John P, Mouritsen, Kim N, Poulin, Robert, Reise, Karsten, Stouffer, Daniel B, Thieltges, David W, Williams, Richard J, Zander, Claus Dieter

“…Comparative research on food web structure has revealed generalities in trophic organization, produced simple models, and allowed assessment of robustness to…”
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Accelerated viral dynamics in bat cell lines, with implications for zoonotic emergence by Brook, Cara E, Boots, Mike, Chandran, Kartik, Dobson, Andrew P, Drosten, Christian, Graham, Andrea L, Grenfell, Bryan T, Müller, Marcel A, Ng, Melinda, Wang, Lin-Fa, van Leeuwen, Anieke

“…Bats host virulent zoonotic viruses without experiencing disease. A mechanistic understanding of the impact of bats' virus hosting capacities, including…”
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Too few, too late: U.S. Endangered Species Act undermined by inaction and inadequate funding by Eberhard, Erich K, Wilcove, David S, Dobson, Andrew P

“…This year, the Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity will meet to finalize a post 2020-framework for biodiversity conservation,…”
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Epidemic Dynamics at the Human-Animal Interface by Lloyd-Smith, James O, George, Dylan, Pepin, Kim M, Pitzer, Virginia E, Pulliam, Juliet R.C, Dobson, Andrew P, Hudson, Peter J, Grenfell, Bryan T

“…Few infectious diseases are entirely human-specific: Most human pathogens also circulate in animals or else originated in nonhuman hosts. Influenza, plague,…”
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The costs and benefits of primary prevention of zoonotic pandemics by Bernstein, Aaron S, Ando, Amy W, Loch-Temzelides, Ted, Vale, Mariana M, Li, Binbin V, Li, Hongying, Busch, Jonah, Chapman, Colin A, Kinnaird, Margaret, Nowak, Katarzyna, Castro, Marcia C, Zambrana-Torrelio, Carlos, Ahumada, Jorge A, Xiao, Lingyun, Roehrdanz, Patrick, Kaufman, Les, Hannah, Lee, Daszak, Peter, Pimm, Stuart L, Dobson, Andrew P

“…The lives lost and economic costs of viral zoonotic pandemics have steadily increased over the past century. Prominent policymakers have promoted plans that…”
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A disease-mediated trophic cascade in the Serengeti and its implications for ecosystem C by Holdo, Ricardo M, Sinclair, Anthony R E, Dobson, Andrew P, Metzger, Kristine L, Bolker, Benjamin M, Ritchie, Mark E, Holt, Robert D

“…Tree cover is a fundamental structural characteristic and driver of ecosystem processes in terrestrial ecosystems, and trees are a major global carbon (C)…”
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Development, environmental degradation, and disease spread in the Brazilian Amazon by Castro, Marcia C, Baeza, Andres, Codeço, Cláudia Torres, Cucunubá, Zulma M, Dal'Asta, Ana Paula, De Leo, Giulio A, Dobson, Andrew P, Carrasco-Escobar, Gabriel, Lana, Raquel Martins, Lowe, Rachel, Monteiro, Antonio Miguel Vieira, Pascual, Mercedes, Santos-Vega, Mauricio

“…The Amazon is Brazil's greatest natural resource and invaluable to the rest of the world as a buffer against climate change. The recent election of Brazil's…”
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Dynamics of a morbillivirus at the domestic–wildlife interface: Canine distemper virus in domestic dogs and lions by Viana, Mafalda, Cleaveland, Sarah, Matthiopoulos, Jason, Halliday, Jo, Packer, Craig, Craft, Meggan E., Hampson, Katie, Czupryna, Anna, Dobson, Andrew P., Dubovi, Edward J., Ernest, Eblate, Fyumagwa, Robert, Hoare, Richard, Hopcraft, J. Grant C., Horton, Daniel L., Kaarek, Magai T., Kanellos, Theo, Lankester, Felix, Mentzel, Christine, Mlengeya, Titus, Mzimbiri, Imam, Takahashi, Emi, Willett, Brian, Haydon, Daniel T., Lembo, Tiziana

“…Significance Morbilliviruses are a growing concern because of their ability to infect multiple species. The spill-over of canine distemper virus (CDV) from…”
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Linking community and disease ecology: the impact of biodiversity on pathogen transmission by Roche, Benjamin, Dobson, Andrew P., Guégan, Jean-François, Rohani, Pejman

“…The increasing number of zoonotic diseases spilling over from a range of wild animal species represents a particular concern for public health, especially in…”
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Disease ecology, biodiversity, and the latitudinal gradient in income by Bonds, Matthew H, Dobson, Andrew P, Keenan, Donald C

“…While most of the world is thought to be on long-term economic growth paths, more than one-sixth of the world is roughly as poor today as their ancestors were…”
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Parasites in food webs: the ultimate missing links by Lafferty, Kevin D, Allesina, Stefano, Arim, Matias, Briggs, Cherie J, De Leo, Giulio, Dobson, Andrew P, Dunne, Jennifer A, Johnson, Pieter T.J, Kuris, Armand M, Marcogliese, David J, Martinez, Neo D, Memmott, Jane, Marquet, Pablo A, McLaughlin, John P, Mordecai, Erin A, Pascual, Mercedes, Poulin, Robert, Thieltges, David W

“…Parasitism is the most common consumer strategy among organisms, yet only recently has there been a call for the inclusion of infectious disease agents in food…”
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Crossing the interspecies barrier: opening the door to zoonotic pathogens by Gortazar, Christian, Reperant, Leslie A, Kuiken, Thijs, de la Fuente, José, Boadella, Mariana, Martínez-Lopez, Beatriz, Ruiz-Fons, Francisco, Estrada-Peña, Agustin, Drosten, Christian, Medley, Graham, Ostfeld, Richard, Peterson, Townsend, VerCauteren, Kurt C, Menge, Christian, Artois, Marc, Schultsz, Constance, Delahay, Richard, Serra-Cobo, Jordi, Poulin, Robert, Keck, Frederic, Aguirre, A Alonso, Aguirre, Alonso A, Henttonen, Heikki, Dobson, Andrew P, Kutz, Susan, Lubroth, Juan, Mysterud, Atle

“…The number of pathogens known to infect humans is ever increasing. Whether such increase reflects improved surveillance and detection or actual emergence of…”
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Ecosystem energetic implications of parasite and free-living biomass in three estuaries by Kuris, Armand M, Hechinger, Ryan F, Shaw, Jenny C, Whitney, Kathleen L, Aguirre-Macedo, Leopoldina, Boch, Charlie A, Dobson, Andrew P, Dunham, Eleca J, Fredensborg, Brian L, Huspeni, Todd C, Lorda, Julio, Mababa, Luzviminda, Mancini, Frank T, Mora, Adrienne B, Pickering, Maria, Talhouk, Nadia L, Torchin, Mark E, Lafferty, Kevin D

“…Parasites can have strong impacts but are thought to contribute little biomass to ecosystems. We quantified the biomass of free-living and parasitic species in…”
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Bartonella spp. in fruit bats and blood-feeding Ectoparasites in Madagascar by Brook, Cara E, Bai, Ying, Dobson, Andrew P, Osikowicz, Lynn M, Ranaivoson, Hafaliana C, Zhu, Qiyun, Kosoy, Michael Y, Dittmar, Katharina

“…We captured, ectoparasite-combed, and blood-sampled cave-roosting Madagascan fruit bats (Eidolon dupreanum) and tree-roosting Madagascan flying foxes (Pteropus…”
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Pathogen-induced reversal of native dominance in a grassland community by Borer, Elizabeth T, Hosseini, Parviez R, Seabloom, Eric W, Dobson, Andrew P

“…Disease may play a critical role in invasions by nonnative plants and animals that currently threaten global biodiversity. For example, a generalist viral…”
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What Links Bats to Emerging Infectious Diseases? by Dobson, Andrew P.

“…Three species of horseshoe bats have now been officially recorded as the natural reservoir host of the coronavirus that causes severe acute respiratory…”
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Assessing Rotation-Invariant Feature Classification for Automated Wildebeest Population Counts by Torney, Colin J, Dobson, Andrew P, Borner, Felix, Lloyd-Jones, David J, Moyer, David, Maliti, Honori T, Mwita, Machoke, Fredrick, Howard, Borner, Markus, Hopcraft, J Grant C

“…Accurate and on-demand animal population counts are the holy grail for wildlife conservation organizations throughout the world because they enable fast and…”
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Parallel patterns of increased virulence in a recently emerged wildlife pathogen by Hawley, Dana M, Osnas, Erik E, Dobson, Andrew P, Hochachka, Wesley M, Ley, David H, Dhondt, André A

“…The evolution of higher virulence during disease emergence has been predicted by theoretical models, but empirical studies of short-term virulence evolution…”
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