The disease ecology community has struggled to come to consensus on whether
biodiversity reduces or increases infectious disease risk, a question that directly affects …

For decades, people have reduced the transmission of pathogens by adding low‐quality
hosts to managed environments like agricultural fields. More recently, there has been …

Trait-based approaches are an alternative to species-based approaches for functionally
linking individual organisms with community structure and dynamics. In the trait-based …

Diverse host communities commonly inhibit the spread of parasites at small scales.
However, the generality of this effect remains controversial. Here, we present the analysis of …

Understanding the complex population biology and transmission ecology of multihost
parasites has been declared as one of the major challenges of biomedical sciences for the …

Anthropogenic disturbances and the subsequent loss of biodiversity are altering species
abundances and communities. Since species vary in their pathogen competence, spatio …

Predicting and disrupting transmission of human parasites from wildlife hosts or vectors
remains challenging because ecological interactions can influence their epidemiological …

Climatic warming will likely have idiosyncratic impacts on infectious diseases, causing some
to increase while others decrease or shift geographically. A mechanistic framework could …

Context-dependent dispersal allows organisms to seek and settle in habitats improving their
fitness. Despite the importance of species interactions in determining fitness, a quantitative …

Most pathogens are embedded in complex communities composed of multiple interacting
hosts, but we are still learning how community‐level factors, such as host diversity …