Biodiversity and Disease Risk: the Case of Lyme Disease

By Richard S. Ostfeld, Felicia Keesing. 2000

704 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Insect Science, Parasitology

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In Ecology

1. Richard S. Ostfeld
2. K. Logiudice
3. P. Daszak
4. A. Cunningham
5. A. Hyatt
6. Felicia Keesing
7. A. Kilpatrick
8. Xingguo Han

In Insect Science

1. P. Daszak
2. A. Cunningham
3. A. Hyatt
4. Richard S. Ostfeld
5. Felicia Keesing
6. A. Kilpatrick

In Parasitology

1. Richard S. Ostfeld
2. Felicia Keesing
3. K. Logiudice
4. P. Daszak
5. A. Cunningham
6. A. Hyatt
7. A. Kilpatrick
8. P. Kareiva

Citations in the corpus

• Plant functional diversity modulates global environmental change effects on grassland productivity (2018, background): “Note that this scenario is akin to the dilution effect in disease ecology, where the presence of suboptimal hosts reduces the transmission and prevalence of vector- borne diseases (Ostfeld & Keesing, 2000).”
• ECOLOGY OF WEST NILE VIRUS TRANSMISSION AND ITS IMPACT ON BIRDS IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE (2007, background): “This theory att empts to link the prevalence of infection in vectors with the competence and diversity of the vertebrate host community (Ostfeld and Keesing 2000).”
• Invaders interfere with native parasite–host interactions (2009, background): “Similar dilution effects of ambient fauna have been found to impair the transmission of infectious diseases with incompetent hosts distracting infectious stages from the ‘‘real’’ hosts, thus reducing their infection levels ( Ostfeld and Keesing 2000; Keesing et al. 2006).”
• An ecosystem services framework to support both practical conservation and economic development (2008, background): “For instance, habitat loss and landscape change are documented to have played a major role in the increased prevalence of vector-borne diseases such as Lyme disease (24), West Nile virus, Chagas disease, and tick borne encephalitis.”
• Spatial epidemiology: an emerging (or re-emerging) discipline. (2005, background): “(ii) The abundance of vertebrate reservoirs is highly dynamic spatially or temporally [ 14 ], which could lead to significant variation in risk that would be invisible to cross-sectional mapping exercises.”
• Disease persistence and apparent competition in a three-host community: an empirical and analytical study of large-scale, wild populations (2001, background): “ Ostfeld & Keesing (2000a) looked at how Lyme disease (caused by the spirochaete Borrelia burgdorferi ) risk altered with different numbers of host species across regions of the United States.”
• Anthropogenic environmental change and the emergence of infectious diseases in wildlife. (2001, positive): “Recent work on Lyme disease hypothesizes that regional host biodiversity differences help to explain disease distribution (Ostfield and Keesing, 2000).”