2022
Assessing the risk of human‐to‐wildlife pathogen transmission for conservation and public health
Fagre A, Cohen L, Eskew E, Farrell M, Glennon E, Joseph M, Frank H, Ryan S, Carlson C, Albery G. Assessing the risk of human‐to‐wildlife pathogen transmission for conservation and public health. Ecology Letters 2022, 25: 1534-1549. PMID: 35318793, PMCID: PMC9313783, DOI: 10.1111/ele.14003.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNon-human primatesPathogen transmissionThreatened animalsThreaten conservationHuman healthRisk assessmentHuman pathogensPrimatesIncreasing concernSampling biasPublic healthConservationTransmission of pathogensDocumented examplesPathogensEvidence of sampling biasTransmission eventsHuman parasitesWildlifeOptimising predictive models to prioritise viral discovery in zoonotic reservoirs
Becker D, Albery G, Sjodin A, Poisot T, Bergner L, Chen B, Cohen L, Dallas T, Eskew E, Fagre A, Farrell M, Guth S, Han B, Simmons N, Stock M, Teeling E, Carlson C. Optimising predictive models to prioritise viral discovery in zoonotic reservoirs. The Lancet Microbe 2022, 3: e625-e637. PMID: 35036970, PMCID: PMC8747432, DOI: 10.1016/s2666-5247(21)00245-7.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSystematic model validationTrait-based modelsHost-virus associationsBat hostsHost ecologyWildlife samplesBat speciesNovel hostsSampling recommendationsBridge hostsWildlifeWildlife reservoirsTarget prioritisationBatsStatistical modelMachine learning modelsModel performanceViral discoveryProcess of predictionAnalytical pipelinePrediction modelBetacoronavirusLearning modelsEcologyEnsemble model
2020
A global parasite conservation plan
Carlson C, Hopkins S, Bell K, Doña J, Godfrey S, Kwak M, Lafferty K, Moir M, Speer K, Strona G, Torchin M, Wood C. A global parasite conservation plan. Biological Conservation 2020, 250: 108596. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108596.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2019
The global distribution of Bacillus anthracis and associated anthrax risk to humans, livestock and wildlife
Carlson C, Kracalik I, Ross N, Alexander K, Hugh-Jones M, Fegan M, Elkin B, Epp T, Shury T, Zhang W, Bagirova M, Getz W, Blackburn J. The global distribution of Bacillus anthracis and associated anthrax risk to humans, livestock and wildlife. Nature Microbiology 2019, 4: 1337-1343. PMID: 31086311, DOI: 10.1038/s41564-019-0435-4.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAnthrax riskWild ungulatesDistribution of B. anthracisInadequate surveillance systemsGlobal distributionOccurrence datasetConservation effortsLivestock vulnerabilityTemperate landsGrazing livestockHuman healthGeographic extentGlobal totalRegression treesWildlifeUngulatesVulnerable regionsLivestockAnthrax outbreaksNorth AmericaRainfed systemsBillion peopleLandscapeLandTemperate
2018
The Ecology of Pathogen Spillover and Disease Emergence at the Human-Wildlife-Environment Interface
Alexander K, Carlson C, Lewis B, Getz W, Marathe M, Eubank S, Sanderson C, Blackburn J. The Ecology of Pathogen Spillover and Disease Emergence at the Human-Wildlife-Environment Interface. Advances In Environmental Microbiology 2018, 5: 267-298. PMCID: PMC7123968, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-92373-4_8.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchProcess of spilloverAbiotic environmentPathogen spilloverDisease emergencePathogen life cycleHuman populationLife cycleHuman-to-human transmissionInfectious diseasesSpillover processWildlifeEcologistsPublic healthEcologyNovel diseaseTransmission pathwaysLivestockDiseaseGlobal burdenSpillover rateDiversityGoing through the motions: incorporating movement analyses into disease research
Dougherty E, Seidel D, Carlson C, Spiegel O, Getz W. Going through the motions: incorporating movement analyses into disease research. Ecology Letters 2018, 21: 588-604. PMID: 29446237, DOI: 10.1111/ele.12917.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMovement ecologyMovement-based methodsQuantify individual heterogeneityHost-pathogen dynamicsEcological processesPatterns of disease burdenWildlife diseasesHost movementMovement behaviorDisease researchEcologySpread pathogensPopulation scaleWildlifeHuman diseasesSpatiotemporal patternsPredictive capacityEcologistsIndividual heterogeneityAnalytical techniquesPathogensReproductionPopulationHostHeterogeneityEstimating the extinction date of the thylacine with mixed certainty data
Carlson C, Bond A, Burgio K. Estimating the extinction date of the thylacine with mixed certainty data. Conservation Biology 2018, 32: 477-483. PMID: 29067718, DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13037.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsExtinction dateCape York PeninsulaThylacinus cynocephalusMarsupial carnivoreWildlife biologyCharismatic taxaThylacineExtinction modelNorthern QueenslandYork PeninsulaCape YorkExtinctionSpeciesTasmaniaCaptive individualsSightWildlifeCarnivoresMegafaunaThylacinusPersistenceTheory of extinctionCapeConservationHunting