Body condition metrics are widely used to infer animal health and to assess costs of parasite
infection. Since parasites harm their hosts, ecologists might expect negative relationships …

Recent efforts to include parasites in food webs have drawn attention to a previously ignored
facet of foraging ecology: parasites commonly function as prey within ecosystems. Because …

Disease and community ecology share conceptual and theoretical lineages, and there has
been a resurgence of interest in strengthening links between these fields. Building on recent …

Wildlife diseases are an increasing concern for endangered species conservation, but their
occurrence, causes, and human influences are often unknown. We analyzed 3,939 records …

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 …

Parasites can shape the foraging behaviour of their hosts through cues indicating risk of
infection. When cues for risk co-occur with desired traits such as forage quality, individuals …

The complexity of host–parasite interactions makes it difficult to predict how host–parasite
systems will respond to climate change. In particular, host and parasite traits such as …

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

Abstract Models of host-microbe dynamics typically assume a single-host population
infected by a single pathogen. In reality, many hosts form multi-species aggregations and …

The occurrence and magnitude of disease outbreaks can strongly influence host evolution.
In particular, when hosts face a resistance-fecundity trade-off, they might evolve increased …