Keeping the herds healthy and alert: implications of predator control for infectious disease

By Craig Packer, Robert D. Holt, P. Hudson, K. Lafferty, A. Dobson. 2003

442 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Genetics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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In Ecology

1. K. Lafferty
2. M. Torchin
3. A. Kuris
4. A. Dobson
5. A. Dunn
6. M. J. Hatcher
7. R. Hechinger
8. Ferenc Jordán

In Genetics

1. K. Lafferty
2. A. Kuris
3. A. Dunn
4. M. J. Hatcher
5. A. Dobson
6. M. Torchin
7. Wayne M. Getz
8. Robert D. Holt

In Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

1. K. Lafferty
2. Robert D. Holt
3. R. Hufbauer
4. Pieter T. J. Johnson

Citations in the corpus

• FISHING FOR LOBSTERS INDIRECTLY INCREASES EPIDEMICS IN SEA URCHINS (2004, background): “Alternatively, predation may keep prey at densities too low for efficient disease transmission (Packer et al. 2003).”
• Unhealthy herds: indirect effects of predators enhance two drivers of disease spread (2011, background): “Indeed, recent theoretical (Packer et al. 2003; Ostfeld & Holt 2004; Hall, Duffy & Cáceres 2005) and empirical (Hudson, Dobson & Newborn 1992; Duffy et al.”
• Indirect effects of parasites in invasions (2012, background): “For instance, predators, by disproportionately removing infected prey, may help maintain populations at lower levels of infection (the healthy herds hypothesis; Packer et al. 2003).”
• Network position of hosts in food webs and their parasite diversity (2008, background): “Our finding that the network position of intermediate hosts is associated closely with material accumulation and transmission is therefore similar to the notion of PITT (parasite increased trophic transmission) (Lafferty 1999, Mouritsen and Poulin 2002 ).”
• Disease, predation and demography: Assessing the impacts of bovine tuberculosis on African buffalo by monitoring at individual and population levels (2009, background): “This study lasted from 2000 to 2006 in the central region and expanded in 2003 to include the Lower Sabie area of the southern region, where the prevalence of BTB was higher.”
• Food webs and parasites in a salt marsh ecosystem. (2006, background): “Parasites may also alter the interaction strengths in the predator–prey subweb if predators select diseased prey (Packer et al. 2003).”
• Is a healthy ecosystem one that is rich in parasites? (2006, background): “Pathogens are most likely to have ecosystem effects when they influence the behavior of the host [14,43], when they reduce the impact of herbivores [44] or make hosts more susceptible to predators [45, 46 ]; these indirect effects coupled with the direct effects on abundance of hosts can have an imp”
• Biodiversity Loss Affects Global Disease Ecology (2009, unknown): “The incorporation of human behavior marks a departure from a purely biophysical approach, one that can easily overlook social, cultural, and economic drivers crucial to understanding anthropogenic ecosystem disruptions and their health impacts (Parkes et al. 2003).”
• Selective predators and their parasitized prey: Are epidemics in zooplankton under top‐down control? (2005, background): “Growing evidence indicates that parasite spread and persistence in a host population depends on the food web in which the host and parasite occur (Holt 2003; Packer et al. 2003; Ostfeld and Holt 2004).”
• Disease risks and overabundance of game species (2006, background): “These interfering factors can interact with each other as suggested for predation, diseases and artificial feeding (e.g. Packer et al. 2003; Buenestado et al. 2004; Millán et al. 2004a).”