Search Results - "Kilpatrick, A. M."

Species interactions can explain Taylor's power law for ecological time series by Kilpatrick, A. M, Ives, A. R

“…One of the few generalities in ecology, Taylor's power law, describes the species-specific relationship between the temporal or spatial variance of populations…”
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Amphibian population declines at Savannah River Site are linked to climate, not chytridiomycosis by Daszak, P., Scott, D. E., Kilpatrick, A. M., Faggioni, C., Gibbons, J. W., Porter, D.

“…Amphibian populations at the Savannah River Site (SRS), South Carolina, USA, have been censused consistently for 35 years, and this provides a time series to…”
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A Quantitative Risk Assessment of West Nile Virus Introduction into Barbados by DOUGLAS, K. O, KILPATRICK, A. M, LEVETT, P. N, LAVOIE, M. C

“…To present a quantitative risk assessment of West Nile (WNV) virus introduction into Barbados, West Indies. Three possible modes were considered: a) WNV…”
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Collaborative research approaches to the role of wildlife in zoonotic disease emergence by Daszak, P, Epstein, J H, Kilpatrick, A M, Aguirre, A A, Karesh, W B, Cunningham, A A

“…Emerging infectious diseases are a key threat to public health and the majority are caused by zoonotic pathogens. Here we discuss new collaborative approaches…”
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Increasing mortality of Endangered Antillean manatees Trichechus manatus manatus due to watercraft collisions in Belize by Galves, CG, Gomez, NA, Galves, J, Zilliacus, KM, Croll, DA, Kilpatrick, AM

“…Belize maintains the largest proportion of the Endangered Antillean manatee Trichechus manatus manatus population in its range, but tourism and boat traffic…”
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Unhealthy Landscapes: Policy Recommendations on Land Use Change and Infectious Disease Emergence by Patz, Jonathan A., Daszak, Peter, Tabor, Gary M., Aguirre, A. Alonso, Pearl, Mary, Epstein, Jon, Wolfe, Nathan D., Kilpatrick, A. Marm, Foufopoulos, Johannes, Molyneux, David, Bradley, David J., Members of the Working Group on Land Use Change and Disease Emergence

“…Anthropogenic land use changes drive a range of infectious disease outbreaks and emergence events and modify the transmission of endemic infections. These…”
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West Nile Virus and Wildlife by MARRA, PETER P, GRIFFING, SEAN, CAFFREY, CAROLEE, KILPATRICK, A. MARM, McLEAN, ROBERT, BRAND, CHRISTOPHER, SAITO, EMI, DUPUIS, ALAN P, KRAMER, LAURA, NOVAK, ROBERT

“…West Nile virus (WNV) has spread rapidly across North America, resulting in human deaths and in the deaths of untold numbers of birds, mammals, and reptiles…”
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Presence of an emerging pathogen of amphibians in introduced bullfrogs Rana catesbeiana in Venezuela by Hanselmann, Rhea, Rodrı́guez, Argelia, Lampo, Margarita, Fajardo-Ramos, Laurie, Alonso Aguirre, A, Marm Kilpatrick, A, Paul Rodrı́guez, Jon, Daszak, Peter

“…Chytridiomycosis is an emerging fungal disease of amphibians responsible for mass mortalities and population declines globally. One hypothesis for its recent…”
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Aquatic bird disease and mortality as an indicator of changing ecosystem health by Newman, Scott H., Chmura, Aleksei, Converse, Kathy, Kilpatrick, A. Marm, Patel, Nikkita, Lammers, Emily, Daszak, Peter

“…We analyzed data from pathologic investigations in the United States, collected by the USGS National Wildlife Health Center between 1971 and 2005, into aquatic…”
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The impact of thermoregulatory costs on foraging behaviour: a test with American Crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos) and eastern grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) by Kilpatrick, A M

“…I attempted to test for the effects of thermoregulatory costs on the foraging behaviour of eastern grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) and American Crows…”
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From superspreaders to disease hotspots: linking transmission across hosts and space by Paull, Sara H, Song, Sejin, McClure, Katherine M, Sackett, Loren C, Kilpatrick, A Marm, Johnson, Pieter TJ

“…Since the identification and imprisonment of "Typhoid Mary", a woman who infected at least 47 people with typhoid in the early 1900s, epidemiologists have…”
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Testing a mechanistic explanation for the latitudinal gradient in mammalian species richness across North America by Kilpatrick, A M, Mitchell, WA, Porter, W P, Currie, D J

“…Hypothesis: Spatial variation in species richness is caused by increased maintenance metabolic costs that increase habitat overlap and decrease species…”
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Magnitude of the US trade in amphibians and presence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and ranavirus infection in imported North American bullfrogs ( Rana catesbeiana) by Schloegel, Lisa M., Picco, Angela M., Kilpatrick, A. Marm, Davies, Angela J., Hyatt, Alex D., Daszak, Peter

“…Amphibians are globally threatened by anthropogenic habitat loss, the wildlife trade and emerging diseases. Previous authors have hypothesized that the spread…”
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Scale dependence of disease impacts on quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) mortality in the southwestern United States by Bell, David M., Bradford, John B., Lauenroth, William K.

“…Depending on how disease impacts tree exposure to risk, both the prevalence of disease and disease effects on survival may contribute to patterns of mortality…”
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West Nile virus ecology in a tropical ecosystem in Guatemala by Morales-Betoulle, Maria E, Komar, Nicholas, Panella, Nicholas A, Alvarez, Danilo, López, María R, Betoulle, Jean-Luc, Sosa, Silvia M, Müller, María L, Kilpatrick, A Marm, Lanciotti, Robert S, Johnson, Barbara W, Powers, Ann M, Cordón-Rosales, Celia

“…West Nile virus ecology has yet to be rigorously investigated in the Caribbean Basin. We identified a transmission focus in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, and…”
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Bushmeat hunting, deforestation, and prediction of zoonoses emergence by Wolfe, Nathan D, Daszak, Peter, Kilpatrick, A Marm, Burke, Donald S

“…Understanding the emergence of new zoonotic agents requires knowledge of pathogen biodiversity in wildlife, human-wildlife interactions, anthropogenic…”
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Primary cilia as a targetable node between biliary injury, senescence and regeneration in liver transplantation by Esser, Hannah, Kilpatrick, Alastair Morris, Man, Tak Yung, Aird, Rhona, Rodrigo-Torres, Daniel, Buch, Madita Lina, Boulter, Luke, Walmsley, Sarah, Oniscu, Gabriel Corneliu, Schneeberger, Stefan, Ferreira-Gonzalez, Sofia, Forbes, Stuart John

“…Biliary complications are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in liver transplantation. Up to 25% of patients that develop biliary complications require…”
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DNA vaccination of American robins (Turdus migratorius) against West Nile virus by Kilpatrick, A Marm, Dupuis, Alan P, Chang, Gwong-Jen J, Kramer, Laura D

“…West Nile virus (WNV) has caused at least 1150 cases of encephalitis, 100 deaths, and an estimated 30,000-80,000 illnesses in 6 of the last 7 years. Recent…”
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West Nile virus epidemics in North America are driven by shifts in mosquito feeding behavior by Kilpatrick, A Marm, Kramer, Laura D, Jones, Matthew J, Marra, Peter P, Daszak, Peter

“…West Nile virus (WNV) has caused repeated large-scale human epidemics in North America since it was first detected in 1999 and is now the dominant vector-borne…”
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EFFECTS OF CHRONIC AVIAN MALARIA (PLASMODIUM RELICTUM) INFECTION ON REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS OF HAWAII AMAKIHI (HEMIGNATHUS VIRENS) by Kilpatrick, A. Marm, LaPointe, Dennis A, Atkinson, Carter T, Woodworth, Bethany L, Lease, Julie K, Reiter, Matthew E, Gross, Kevin

“…We studied the effects of chronic avian malaria (Plasmodium relictum) infections on the reproductive success of a native Hawaiian honeycreeper, Hawaii Amakihi…”
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