Mechanisms of disease‐induced extinction

By Francisco de Castro, Benjamin M. Bolker. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Genetics, Parasitology

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Citations in the corpus

• Historical bird and terrestrial mammal extinction rates and causes (2012, neutral): “On the other hand, the argument that introduced disease per se can only predispose a population to extinction (De Castro & Bolker, 2005) ignores the reservoir effect of disease carried by an introduced species and the sensitivity of a naive species (particularly on islands).”
• Bringing the Hutchinsonian niche into the 21st century: Ecological and evolutionary perspectives (2009, background): “Pathogens can cause host extinctions (42), particularly where the host is abundant (43), precisely where the disease should increase most rapidly if initially rare.”
• Disease alters macroecological patterns of North American bats (2015, background): “This is despite substantial theoretical work on the role of disease in population regulation and as a driver of extinction risk (Anderson & May, 1979; de Castro & Bolker, 2004) and empirical work on the population ecology of invasive species that have escaped their pathogens (Torchin et al., 2003).”
• Predicting susceptibility to future declines in the world's frogs (2008, background): “One of the three criteria for disease-induced extinction is a restricted distribution, and associated small population size (de Castro and Bolker 2005).”
• White-nose syndrome is likely to extirpate the endangered Indiana bat over large parts of its range (2013, background): “…Jones, 2010); our sensitivity analyses indicated increased risk of extirpation as population size declined and environmental stochasticity increased, coincident with a considerable body of empirical and theoretical study (e.g., Lande, 1993; Lafferty and Gerber, 2002; de Castro and Bolker, 2005).”
• Ecosystem transformation by emerging infectious disease: loss of large tanoak from California forests (2012, background): “In contrast, generalist pathogens can cause substantial extinction risk to mammals (Frick et al. 2010) and other taxa (de Castro & Bolker 2005) where no process analogous to basal sprouting can maintain these hosts.”
• Protecting an ecosystem service: approaches to understanding and mitigating threats to wild insect pollinators (2016, background): “…(where one host acts as the major carrier of the 810 parasite) and spill-overs (where the parasite is transmitted from reservoir to non-reservoir 811 hosts) may drive host species with anthropogenically reduced populations to extinction 812 (Daszak 2000; de Castro and Bolker, 2005; Dobson 2004).”
• Ranavirus Ecology and Evolution: From Epidemiology to Extinction (2015, background): “De Castro and Bolker ( 2005 ) reviewed three theoretical mechanisms by which pathogens could cause the extinction of their host.”