Effects of species diversity on disease risk.

By Felicia Keesing, Robert D. Holt, Richard S. Ostfeld. Ecology Letters, 2006

1,485 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Genetics, Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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In Genetics

1. V. McKenzie
2. J. Emmett Duffy
3. Pieter T. J. Johnson
4. Richard S. Ostfeld
5. Felicia Keesing
6. M. Desprez-Loustau
7. Mike Boots
8. T. Miki

In Infectious Diseases

1. Pieter T. J. Johnson
2. V. McKenzie
3. Richard S. Ostfeld
4. Ross K. Meentemeyer
5. Felicia Keesing
6. T. E. Condeso
7. Dejene W. Sintayehu
8. Melissa J. Ward

In Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

1. Pieter T. J. Johnson
2. V. McKenzie
3. Richard S. Ostfeld
4. Ross K. Meentemeyer
5. Felicia Keesing
6. T. E. Condeso
7. Mike Boots
8. Dejene W. Sintayehu

Citations in the corpus

• Complex interactions in the microbial world: underexplored key links between viruses, bacteria and protozoan grazers in aquatic environments (2008, background): “In general, if the diversity of the host is much greater than that of the parasite, the successful attack rate will be reduced because each type of parasite can attack only a small fraction of the host groups in the context of high host specificity (Keesing et al. 2006).”
• 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 ).”
• Exploring connections among nature, biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human health and well-being: Opportunities to enhance health and biodiversity conservation ☆ (2015, background): “” The above examples notwithstanding, Keesing et al. (2006) concluded that there was no simple, clear-cut answer as to whether biodiversity might increase or decrease risk of infectious disease in humans. While the weight of available evidence tended to favor the general idea that higher diversity r”
• Understanding the Effects of Marine Biodiversity on Communities and Ecosystems (2007, background): “Second, the dilution hypothesis, or its inverse, the resource concentration hypothesis (e.g., Keesing et al. 2006), suggests that a more diverse prey assemblage should reduce the relative and absolute abundances of prey available to specialist consumers, reducing consumer efficiency.”
• Do soil‐borne fungal pathogens mediate plant diversity–productivity relationships? Evidence and future opportunities (2020, background): “Yet, even the effects of non-host neighbours on fungal pathogen transmission may differ considerably (Keesing et al., 2006).”
• Invading with biological weapons: the importance of disease‐mediated invasions (2012, background): “If the non-indigenous host is a poor reservoir for the parasite, then its presence could decrease infection prevalence in the native host population via a dilution effect (Ostfeld & Keesing 2000; Keesing et al. 2006).”
• Impact of climate change on biodiversity and associated key ecosystem services in Africa: a systematic review (2018, background): “Such an “encounter increase” (Keesing, Holt, and Ostfeld 2006) might lead to increased probabilities of bTB infection risks.”