Plant diseases are strongly influenced by host biodiversity, spatial structure, and abiotic
conditions. All of these are undergoing rapid change, as the climate is warming, habitats are …

Background Fire strongly affects animals' behavior, population dynamics, and environmental
surroundings, which in turn are likely to affect their immune systems and exposure to …

Parasitic infections are common, but how they shape ecosystem-level processes is
understudied. Using a mathematical model and meta-analysis, we explored the potential for …

Parasites can indirectly affect ecosystem function by altering host phenotype, but the trait‐
mediated impacts of parasitism at an ecosystem level remain poorly characterised …

Ecosystems function in a series of feedback loops that can change or maintain vegetation
structure. Vegetation structure influences the ecological niche space available to animals …

Autotrophs play an essential role in the cycling of carbon and nutrients, yet disease‐
ecosystem relationships are often overlooked in these dynamics. Importantly, the availability …

Hosts rely on the availability of nutrients for growth, and for defense against pathogens. At
the same time, changes in host nutrition can alter the dynamics of pathogens that rely on …

A combination of theory and experiments predicts that increasing soil nutrients will modify
herbivore and microbial impacts on ecosystem carbon cycling. However, few studies of …

Human activities simultaneously alter nutrient levels, habitat structure, and levels of
parasitism. These activities likely have individual and joint impacts on food webs …

Death is a common outcome of infection, but most disease models do not track hosts after
death. Instead, these hosts disappear into a void. This assumption lacks critical realism …