BIODIVERSITY AND THE DILUTION EFFECT IN DISEASE ECOLOGY

By K. Schmidt, Richard S. Ostfeld. 2001

567 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Infectious Diseases, Parasitology

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In Ecology

1. Richard S. Ostfeld
2. K. Logiudice
3. Felicia Keesing
4. Robert D. Holt
5. P. Daszak
6. R. Dunn
7. K. Schmidt
8. Stephen R. Carpenter

In Infectious Diseases

1. Richard S. Ostfeld
2. R. Dunn
3. Felicia Keesing
4. P. Daszak
5. Pieter T. J. Johnson
6. V. McKenzie
7. Ross K. Meentemeyer
8. T. Young

In Parasitology

1. Richard S. Ostfeld
2. Felicia Keesing
3. K. Logiudice
4. P. Daszak
5. R. Dunn
6. Robert D. Holt
7. K. Schmidt
8. J. Emmett Duffy

Citations in the corpus

• Global hotspots and correlates of emerging zoonotic diseases (2017, background): “3b) biodiversity decreases risk or that biodiversity loss may increase risk (i.e., the dilution effect) 22 , while others refute the generalizability of this 23, 24 or suggest disease richness or prevalence increases with increasing wildlife species richness 13 .”
• COMMUNITY DISASSEMBLY, BIODIVERSITY LOSS, AND THE EROSION OF AN ECOSYSTEM SERVICE (2003, background): “The dilution effect is enhanced when the species added to increasingly diverse communities directly or indirectly reduce population density of white-footed mice, or reduce tick burdens on mice via competition for parasites (Schmidt and Ostfeld 2001).”
• Rodent-borne diseases and their risks for public health (2009, background): “, an increasing number of potential tick host species) may lead to a dilution effect (Dobson et al. 2006; Schmidt and Ostfeld 2001).”
• SONGBIRD POPULATIONS IN FLUCTUATING ENVIRONMENTS: PREDATOR RESPONSES TO PULSED RESOURCES (2003, background): “Likewise, chipmunks covary positively with mouse populations, but at approximately half their abundance (Schmidt and Ostfeld 2001; also see Wolff 1996).”
• Climatic variability and landscape heterogeneity impact urban mosquito diversity and vector abundance and infection (2011, background): “…www.esajournals.org 2 June 2011 v Volume 2(6) v Article 70 effect’’ patterns have been primarily described as a function of vertebrate host diversity (Schmidt and Ostfeld 2001) and its best mechanistic articulation, zooprophylaxis [the diversion of bites from a focal host species by the presence…”
• Effects of species diversity on disease risk. (2006, background): “Alternatively, an added species could increase vector abundance by providing additional sources of vector meals (e.g. Cecere et al. 1997; Norman et al. 1999; Gilbert et al. 2001; Schmidt & Ostfeld 2001; Saul 2003; Fig.”
• Ecological forecasts: an emerging imperative. (2001, background): “make disease forecasting difficult ( Schmidt and Ostfeld 2001, Dobson & Foufopoulos, 2001, in”
• Global Mapping of Ecosystem Disservices: The Unspoken Reality that Nature Sometimes Kills us (2010, background): “Ironically (and maladaptively), we appear to make habitats worse for us in terms of their disservices (Schmidt & Ostfeld 2001, Vanwambeke et al. 2007).”