Featured Publications
Climate change increases cross-species viral transmission risk
Carlson C, Albery G, Merow C, Trisos C, Zipfel C, Eskew E, Olival K, Ross N, Bansal S. Climate change increases cross-species viral transmission risk. Nature 2022, 607: 555-562. PMID: 35483403, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04788-w.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsViral sharingRange shiftsRange shifts of speciesHuman population densityGeographic range shiftsUnique dispersal abilityLand-use scenariosShifts of speciesGlobal environmental changeGeographically isolated speciesBiodiversity surveysBiodiversity hotspotHolding warmingMammal speciesDispersal abilityLand-useLand usePotential hotspotsClimate-changePopulation densityCross-species transmissionPhylogeographic modelsEnvironmental changesEcological transitionVirus species
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
2019
Global estimates of mammalian viral diversity accounting for host sharing
Carlson C, Zipfel C, Garnier R, Bansal S. Global estimates of mammalian viral diversity accounting for host sharing. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2019, 3: 1070-1075. PMID: 31182813, DOI: 10.1038/s41559-019-0910-6.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsVirus speciesHost sharingViral diversitySpecies interaction networksEcological network theorySurveillance of pathogensMacroecological approachVirus diversityInteraction networkEstimate biodiversityAssociation dataSpeciesDiversityHostMammalsHuman healthPandemic potentialVirusGlobal estimatesPathogensNon-linear relationshipBiodiversityPresent estimates
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
2015
Paradigms for parasite conservation
Dougherty E, Carlson C, Bueno V, Burgio K, Cizauskas C, Clements C, Seidel D, Harris N. Paradigms for parasite conservation. Conservation Biology 2015, 30: 724-733. PMID: 26400623, DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12634.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAnimalsBiodiversityConservation of Natural ResourcesEcosystemHost-Parasite InteractionsParasitesConceptsParasite conservationParasite biodiversityAssess extinction riskPopulation viability analysisNegative impact of parasitismParasite speciesEx situ breeding programsEquilibrium population sizeImpact of parasitesHost-parasite assemblagesMinimal health risksApex predatorsDependent speciesConservation toolConservation goalsConservation practitionersExtinction riskConservation challengesConsumer speciesConservation paradigmViability analysisEarth's biodiversityHealth risksBiodiversityHost extinction