Urbanisation and agriculture cause declines for many wildlife, but some species benefit from
novel resources, especially food, provided in human‐dominated habitats. Resulting shifts in …

In this review we highlight recent advances in four areas in which nutrition shapes the
relationships between organisms: between plants and herbivores, between hosts and their …

Coral reefs are among the most diverse and productive ecosystems on our planet.
Scleractinian corals function as the primary reef ecosystem engineers, constructing the …

The interaction between the immune system and pathogens is often characterised as a
predator–prey interaction. This characterisation ignores the fact that both require host …

Host resources can drive the optimal parasite exploitation strategy by offering a good or a
poor environment to pathogens. Hosts living in resource‐rich habitats might offer a …

Provisioning of abundant food resources in human-altered landscapes can have profound
effects on wildlife ecology, with important implications for pathogen transmission. While …

Wolbachia are maternally inherited bacterial endosymbionts that naturally infect a diverse
array of arthropods. They are primarily known for their manipulation of host reproductive …

Epidemiologists increasingly realize that species interactions (eg selective predation) can
determine when epidemics start and end. We hypothesize here that resource quality can …

Parasites steal resources that a host would otherwise direct toward its own growth and
reproduction. We use this fundamental notion to explain resource-dependent virulence in a …

Victims of infection are expected to suffer increasingly as parasite population growth
increases. Yet, under some conditions, faster-growing parasites do not appear to cause …