Given their sheer cumulative biomass and ubiquitous presence, parasites are increasingly
recognized as essential components of most food webs. Beyond their influence as …

Landscapes of fear can determine the dynamics of entire ecosystems. In response to
perceived predation risk, prey can show physiological, behavioral, or morphological trait …

This research article examines the impact of economic, health, environmental, and social-
economic factors on diverse forms of pro-environmental consumption: energy conservation …

Understanding how biodiversity affects pathogen transmission remains an unresolved
question due to the challenges in testing potential mechanisms in natural systems and how …

Predation is considered one of the key drivers shaping the relationships between animals.
There is increasing evidence that non‐host aquatic taxa use free‐living parasite stages as …

There is a great need to understand the impact of complex communities on the free-living
parasite stages that are part of them. This task becomes more complex as nonnative species …

Host heterogeneity can affect parasite transmission, but determining underlying traits and
incorporating them into transmission models remains challenging. Body size is easily …

Parasites can be studied with respect to their spatial distribution, abundance and diversity (a
parasite-centric view), or with respect to their effects on host individuals, populations …