Impacts of environmental changes on zoonotic disease risk are the subject of speculation,
but lack a coherent framework for understanding environmental drivers of pathogen …

Chytridiomycota, often referred to as chytrids, can be virulent parasites with the potential to
inflict mass mortalities on hosts, causing eg changes in phytoplankton size distributions and …

The majority of human emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic, with viruses that originate
in wild mammals of particular concern (for example, HIV, Ebola and SARS),,. Understanding …

The phyllosphere—the aerial surfaces of plants, including leaves—is a ubiquitous global
habitat that harbors diverse bacterial communities. Phyllosphere bacterial communities have …

In a context of global changes, and amidst the perpetual modification of community structure
undergone by most natural ecosystems, it is more important than ever to understand how …

Abstract Information on the degree of host specificity is fundamental for an understanding of
the ecology of structurally dependent plants such as vascular epiphytes. Starting with the …

The extinction of a single species is rarely an isolated event. Instead, dependent parasites,
commensals, and mutualist partners (affiliates) face the risk of coextinction as their hosts or …

Habitat fragmentation is a primary threat to biodiversity, but how it affects the structure and
stability of ecological networks is poorly understood. Here, we studied plant–pollinator and …

Parasites with low host specificity (eg infecting a large diversity of host species) are of
special interest in disease ecology, as they are likely more capable of circumventing …

Generalism in resource use is commonly considered a critical driver of population success,
species distribution and extinction risk. This idea can be questioned as generalism may be a …