Flea-borne zoonoses such as plague (Yersinia pestis) and murine typhus (Rickettsia typhi)
caused significant numbers of human cases in the past and remain a public health concern …

Many agricultural landscapes are characterized by a high degree of heterogeneity and
fragmentation. Landscape ecology focuses on the influence of habitat heterogeneity in …

How does nature work in our human-created city, suburb, and exurb/peri-urb? Indeed how is
ecology-including its urban water, soil, air, plant, and animal foundations-spatially entwined …

Fleas are one of the most interesting and fascinating taxa of ectoparasites. All species in this
relatively small order are obligatory haematophagous (blood-feeding) parasites of higher …

The spread of emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) in natural environments poses
substantial risks to biodiversity and ecosystem function. As EIDs and their impacts grow …

Plague is a flea-borne zoonotic bacterial disease caused by Yersinia pestis. It has caused
three historical pandemics, including the Black Death which killed nearly a third of Europe's …

Challenging the concept that since the discovery of the plague bacillus in 1894 the study of
the disease was dominated by bacteriology, Ethnographic Plague argues for the role of …

Numerous historical works have mentioned that trade routes were to blame for the spread of
plague in European history, yet this relationship has never been tested by quantitative …

Recognition of the Anthropocene epoch formally acknowledges the pervasive and
increasingly dominant effects of human activities on the world's biomes. A defining …

Many organisms persist in fragmented habitat where movement between patches is
essential for long-term demographic and genetic stability. In the absence of direct …