For decades, people have reduced the transmission of pathogens by adding low‐quality
hosts to managed environments like agricultural fields. More recently, there has been …

Current unprecedented declines in biodiversity reduce the ability of ecological communities
to provide many fundamental ecosystem services. Here we evaluate evidence that reduced …

The seasonal succession of plankton is an annually repeated process of community
assembly during which all major external factors and internal interactions shaping …

Human activities have increased the availability of nutrients in terrestrial and aquatic
ecosystems. In grasslands, this eutrophication causes loss of plant species diversity, but the …

The dynamics of infectious diseases can be affected by genetic diversity within host
populations, species diversity within host communities, and diversity among communities. In …

How do genetic variation and evolutionary change in critical species affect the composition
and functioning of populations, communities and ecosystems? Illuminating the links in the …

Interactions involving several parasite species (multi-parasitized hosts) or several host
species (multi-host parasites) are the rule in nature. Only a few studies have investigated …

Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases have become a major global environmental
problem with important public health, economic, and political consequences. The etiologic …

Background Anthropogenic land use may influence transmission of multi-host vector-borne
pathogens by changing diversity, relative abundance, and community composition of …

Long‐term ecological data sets present opportunities for identifying drivers of community
dynamics and quantifying their effects through time series analysis. Multivariate …