Climate change is a defining element of the current ecological landscape, with
consequences ranging from global to local environments. One of the first indices of the …

Long-term data allow ecologists to assess trajectories of population abundance. Without this
context, it is impossible to know whether a taxon is thriving or declining to extinction. For …

The world's biodiversity is in peril. The major threats to biodiversity globally are habitat
change, overexploitation, climate change, invasive species and pollution. Not only do these …

Horizon scans have emerged as a valuable tool to anticipate the incoming invasive alien
species (IAS) by judging species on their potential impacts. However, little research has …

Ectotherms are vulnerable to environmental changes and their parasites are biological
health indicators. Thus, parasite load in ectotherms is expected to show a marked …

Insects often exhibit irruptive population dynamics determined by environmental conditions.
We examine if populations of the Culex tarsalis mosquito, a West Nile virus (WNV) vector …

Despite the importance of virulence in epidemiological theory, the relative contributions of
host and parasite to virulence outcomes remain poorly understood. Here, we use reciprocal …

World‐wide, infectious diseases represent a major source of mortality in humans and
livestock. For wildlife populations, disease‐induced mortality is likely even greater, but …

Global warming is likely to lengthen the seasonal duration of larval release by parasites. We
exposed freshwater mussel hosts, Anodonta anatina, from 2 high-latitude populations to …

Traditional mechanistic trade-offs between transmission and parasite latency period length
are foundational for nearly all theories on the evolution of parasite life-history strategies …