Parasites and host population dynamics.

By D. Tompkins, P. Arneberg, M. Begon, I. Cattadori, J. Greenman, J. Heesterbeek, P. Hudson, D. Newborn, A. Pugliese, A. Rizzoli and 2 more. 2002

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Food webs and parasites in a salt marsh ecosystem. (2006, background): “In particular, the invasion and eradication of Rinderpest (a morbillivirus related to measles) in East African ungulates illustrates how one infectious disease strongly affected a food web by altering the density of abundant hosts (Sinclair 1979; Plowright 1982; Dobson 1995; Tompkins et al. 2001).”
Restoring a keystone predator may endanger a prey species in a human‐altered ecosystem: the return of the snow leopard to Sagarmatha National Park (2009, background): “Diseases may play a role in the population dynamics of wild sheep and goats by inducing hypo-fertility, abortion or neonatal–juvenile mortality (Williams & Barker, 2001), although they do not seem to lead to their extinction (Tompkins et al., 2002).”
White-nose syndrome is likely to extirpate the endangered Indiana bat over large parts of its range (2013, background): “Further, we did not impose a host-threshold density below which the disease did not operate (Lafferty and Gerber, 2002; Tompkins et al., 2002).”
The impact of sarcoptic mange Sarcoptes scabiei on the British fox Vulpes vulpes population (2007, background): “Furthermore, wildlife diseases can also exert significant impacts on host population dynamics (Tompkins et al., 2002) and therefore the structure and functioning of ecological communities.”