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A. Townsend Peterson
Researcher at University of Kansas
Publications - 547
Citations - 58980
A. Townsend Peterson is an academic researcher from University of Kansas. The author has contributed to research in topics: Environmental niche modelling & Ecological niche. The author has an hindex of 91, co-authored 521 publications receiving 51524 citations. Previous affiliations of A. Townsend Peterson include California Academy of Sciences & University of Chicago.
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Distribution of members of Anopheles quadrimaculatus Say s.l. (Diptera: Culicidae) and implications for their roles in malaria transmission in the United States
TL;DR: It is concluded that A. quadrimaculatus s.l. was the only species of the complex capable of vectoring malaria in the United States throughout the area in which malaria occurred, however, any or all the members of thecomplex may have been regionally important, particularly in areas of most intense transmission.
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Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza: entry pathways into North America via bird migration.
TL;DR: Given the possibility of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza arriving in North America and monitoring programs that have been established to detect and track it, a review of intercontinental movements of birds suggests the importance of H5n1 monitoring along the Pacific, Atlantic, and Gulf coasts of North America.
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Ecological connectivity of Trypanosoma cruzi reservoirs and Triatoma pallidipennis hosts in an anthropogenic landscape with endemic Chagas disease.
Janine M. Ramsey,Ana E. Gutiérrez-Cabrera,Liliana Salgado-Ramírez,A. Townsend Peterson,Víctor Sánchez-Cordero,Carlos N. Ibarra-Cerdeña +5 more
TL;DR: Clear evidence is provided that cost-effective T. cruzi, vector control strategies and Chagas disease transmission prevention will need to include reservoir/host species in at least ecotones, in addition to domestic habitats, to consider continuous potential for parasite movement over the entire landscape.
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Phylogeny and Niche Conservatism in North and Central American Triatomine Bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae), Vectors of Chagas' Disease
Carlos N. Ibarra-Cerdeña,Alejandro Zaldívar-Riverón,A. Townsend Peterson,Víctor Sánchez-Cordero,Janine M. Ramsey +4 more
TL;DR: Whether niche conservatism is a common pattern among vector species of Trypanosoma cruzi that inhabit North and Central America, a highly heterogeneous landmass in terms of environmental gradients, is analyzed and the hypothesis of niche conservatism could not be rejected for any of six sister species pairs.
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Mapping current and future potential snakebite risk in the new world
TL;DR: In this article, the authors modeled current and future snakebite risk using ecological niche models (ENMs) of 90 venomous snake taxa and corroborated the current snake bite risk predictions by incidence data from eight regions/periods with different characteristics.