Kevin D Lafferty
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Recent Articles
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Aleuy O, Woods L, Padilla B, Richardson D, Schamel J, Baker S, et al.
Int J Parasitol
. 2024 Sep;
54(14):723-732.
PMID: 39326487
In the late 1990s, the San Miguel Island fox (Urocyon littoralis littoralis) faced near-extinction. Fourteen of the 15 remaining foxes were placed into an island-based captive breeding program used to...
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Tao Y, Hastings A, Lafferty K, Hanski I, Ovaskainen O
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
. 2024 May;
121(20):e2303846121.
PMID: 38709920
Habitat loss and isolation caused by landscape fragmentation represent a growing threat to global biodiversity. Existing theory suggests that the process will lead to a decline in metapopulation viability. However,...
3.
Swaminathan S, Lafferty K, Knight N, Altieri A
Sci Adv
. 2024 May;
10(18):eadk6808.
PMID: 38701216
Many Caribbean coral reefs are near collapse due to various threats. An emerging threat, stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD), is spreading across the Western Atlantic and Caribbean. Data from...
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Abonyi A, Fornberg J, Rasconi S, Ptacnik R, Kainz M, Lafferty K
Oecologia
. 2024 Feb;
204(2):279-288.
PMID: 38366067
In temperate lakes, eutrophication and warm temperatures can promote cyanobacteria blooms that reduce water quality and impair food-chain support. Although parasitic chytrids of phytoplankton might compete with zooplankton, they also...
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Moore S, Siwertsson A, Lafferty K, Kuris A, Soldanova M, Morton D, et al.
Oecologia
. 2024 Feb;
204(2):257-277.
PMID: 38326516
We compared three sets of highly resolved food webs with and without parasites for a subarctic lake system corresponding to its pelagic and benthic compartments and the whole-lake food web....
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Sokolow S, Nova N, Jones I, Wood C, Lafferty K, Garchitorena A, et al.
Lancet Planet Health
. 2022 Nov;
6(11):e870-e879.
PMID: 36370725
Background: Billions of people living in poverty are at risk of environmentally mediated infectious diseases-that is, pathogens with environmental reservoirs that affect disease persistence and control and where environmental control...
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Hopkins S, Lafferty K, Wood C, Olson S, Buck J, De Leo G, et al.
Lancet Planet Health
. 2022 Aug;
6(8):e694-e705.
PMID: 35932789
As sustainable development practitioners have worked to "ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all" and "conserve life on land and below water", what progress has been made with win-win...
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Morton D, Lafferty K
Ecol Monogr
. 2022 Jul;
92(2):e1506.
PMID: 35865510
We explored whether parasites are important in kelp forests by examining their effects on a high-quality, high-resolution kelp-forest food web. After controlling for generic effects of network size, parasites affected...
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Hofmeister E, Ruhs E, Berio Fortini L, Hopkins M, Jones L, Lafferty K, et al.
Ecohealth
. 2022 Jun;
19(3):329-334.
PMID: 35759113
No abstract available.
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Benesh D, Chubb J, Lafferty K, Parker G
Curr Res Parasitol Vector Borne Dis
. 2022 Mar;
2:100085.
PMID: 35310018
Why do so many parasitic worms have complex life-cycles? A complex life-cycle has at least two hypothesized costs: (i) worms with longer life-cycles, i.e. more successive hosts, must be generalists...