Species diversity reduces parasite infection through cross‐generational effects on host abundance

PTJ Johnson, DL Preston, JT Hoverman… - Ecology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
… Our results also emphasize the longer-term effects of species richness on the abundance
of susceptible hosts, which led to dramatic decreases in the number of infected hosts only …

Effects of species diversity on disease risk

F Keesing, RD Holt, RS Ostfeld - Ecology letters, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
… which species diversity should dilute or amplify disease risk in disease systems with multiple
… ) host abundance and (b) species richness after controlling for the effects of host abundance

Effects of host diversity on infectious disease

RS Ostfeld, F Keesing - Annual review of ecology, evolution, and …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
… genetic diversity, species diversity, and community diversity (we … species simply increase the
total abundance of all hosts in the … in host abundance with increased species richness. A DE …

Effects of grassland plant species diversity, abundance, and composition on foliar fungal disease

CE Mitchell, D Tilman, JV Groth - Ecology, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
… of host abundance independent of species richness, but also in the effects of host abundance
due ultimately to species … with host percent cover entered in the model before species

Parasite abundance and diversity in mammals: correlates with host ecology.

MG Watve, R Sukumar - Proceedings of the National …, 1995 - National Acad Sciences
… DISCUSSION We have tried to establish rational means of expressing parasite species
diversity. The three groups that emerge from the correlational analyses can be treated as …

Tree species diversity influences herbivore abundance and damage: meta-analysis of long-term forest experiments

H Vehviläinen, J Koricheva, K Ruohomäki - Oecologia, 2007 - Springer
… In this study, we analysed the effects of tree species diversity on herbivore abundance
and damage on three tree species (silver birch, black alder and sessile oak) in seven long-term …

Population dynamics of pathogens with multiple host species

A Dobson - the american naturalist, 2004 - journals.uchicago.edu
… only one host species? This work on the role of host diversity on pathogen abundance will
be … , namely, what role does host species diversity play in maintaining pathogen persistence? …

Phylogenetic structure and host abundance drive disease pressure in communities

IM Parker, M Saunders, M Bontrager, AP Weitz… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
abundance to disease across all host species. We quantified the relative abundance of all 43
vascular plant species… added the focal species abundance to alternative host abundance to …

How host diversity and abundance affect parasite infections: Results from a whole-ecosystem manipulation of bird activity

CL Wood, M Summerside, PTJ Johnson - Biological Conservation, 2020 - Elsevier
… -living species diversity loss as the lever driving change in parasite populations. In the
experiment presented here, we instead augmented free-living species diversity and abundance. …

[PDF][PDF] Plant species diversity and abundance affects the number of arthropod pests in residential landscapes

MJ Raupp, PM Shrewsbury, JJ Holmes… - Journal of …, 2001 - researchgate.net
… of arthropod species found in a landscape and the number of plants, plant species, species
diversity (H'), and relative diversity or evenness (J'). Plant species diversity was estimated …