2020
What would it take to describe the global diversity of parasites?
Carlson C, Dallas T, Alexander L, Phelan A, Phillips A. What would it take to describe the global diversity of parasites? Proceedings Of The Royal Society B 2020, 287: 20201841. PMID: 33203333, PMCID: PMC7739500, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2020.1841.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsParasite diversityParasites of birdsDiversity of parasitesParasites of amphibiansHelminth parasitesHost-parasite associationsParasite collectionGlobal Virome ProjectParasitesHost-parasite networksHuman Genome ProjectUndersampled countriesSample of diversityGenome ProjectMissing speciesBony fishesGlobal diversitySmall hostsSpeciesGlobal changeHelminthsFishDiversityBirdsVertebrates
2018
Gauging support for macroecological patterns in helminth parasites
Dallas T, Aguirre A, Budischak S, Carlson C, Ezenwa V, Han B, Huang S, Stephens P. Gauging support for macroecological patterns in helminth parasites. Global Ecology And Biogeography 2018, 27: 1437-1447. DOI: 10.1111/geb.12819.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchHelminth parasitesParasite diversityHelminth parasite speciesOccurrence recordsMacroecological patternsParasite speciesHost body massParasite richnessDiversity-area relationshipHost speciesParasitesHost diversityFree-living speciesHost richnessMacroecological relationshipsLatitudinal gradientSpatial patternsSpeciesAquatic localities
2017
Parasite biodiversity faces extinction and redistribution in a changing climate
Carlson C, Burgio K, Dougherty E, Phillips A, Bueno V, Clements C, Castaldo G, Dallas T, Cizauskas C, Cumming G, Doña J, Harris N, Jovani R, Mironov S, Muellerklein O, Proctor H, Getz W. Parasite biodiversity faces extinction and redistribution in a changing climate. Science Advances 2017, 3: e1602422. PMID: 28913417, PMCID: PMC5587099, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1602422.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsChanging climateExtinction ratesClimate-driven habitat lossClimate changeLocal extinction ratesSpatially explicit dataEstimate extinction ratesNegative impacts of climate changeImpacts of climate changeHabitat lossNative speciesEcological consequencesWildlife extinctionTemperate ecosystemsExplicit dataParasite richnessGeographic rangeFace extinctionParasite diversityDisease emergenceIndirect pressureModel projectionsParasite speciesClimateSpecies