The past two decades have seen an increasing number of virulent infectious diseases in
natural populations and managed landscapes. In both animals and plants, an …

The transmission of infectious diseases is an inherently ecological process involving
interactions among at least two, and often many, species. Not surprisingly, then, the species …

CONTEXT The COVID-19 pandemic has become one of the most pressing challenges for
humanity. The pandemic is affecting all aspects of human lives and livelihoods, including …

Parasites and infectious diseases are everywhere and represent some of the most potent
forces sha** the natural world. They affect almost every aspect imaginable in the life of …

We define co-introduced parasites as those which have been transported with an alien host
to a new locality, outside of their natural range, and co-invading parasites as those which …

Parasites are important determinants of ecological dynamics. Despite the widespread
perception that parasites (in the broad sense, including microbial pathogens) threaten …

While there is good evidence linking animal introductions to impacts on native communities
via disease emergence, our understanding of how such impacts occur is incomplete …

Species distributions are changing at an unprecedented rate owing to human activity. We
examine how two key processes of redistribution–biological invasion and disease …

In field experiments manipulating generalist pathogens and host community composition,
the presence of a highly susceptible reservoir species drove disease dynamics in multiple …

Pathogens that can infect multiple host species will have different dynamics than pathogens
that are restricted to a single species of host. This article examines the conditions for …