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Andrew P. Dobson
Researcher at Princeton University
Publications - 329
Citations - 48926
Andrew P. Dobson is an academic researcher from Princeton University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Biodiversity. The author has an hindex of 98, co-authored 322 publications receiving 44211 citations. Previous affiliations of Andrew P. Dobson include King's College London & University of Washington.
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Parasites in food webs: the ultimate missing links
Kevin D. Lafferty,Stefano Allesina,Matías Arim,Cherie J. Briggs,Giulio A. De Leo,Andrew P. Dobson,Jennifer A. Dunne,Pieter T. J. Johnson,Armand M. Kuris,David J. Marcogliese,Neo D. Martinez,Jane Memmott,Pablo A. Marquet,Pablo A. Marquet,John P. McLaughlin,Eerin A. Mordecai,Mercedes Pascual,Robert Poulin,David W. Thieltges +18 more
TL;DR: Parasitism is the most common consumer strategy among organisms, yet only recently has there been a call for the inclusion of infectious disease agents in food webs, and the value of this effort hinges on whether parasites affect food-web properties.
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Is a healthy ecosystem one that is rich in parasites
TL;DR: It is shown that there is evidence that parasites are important for biodiversity and production and a healthy system is considered to be one that is rich in parasite species.
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Parasites dominate food web links
TL;DR: The inclusion of parasites revealed that mid-trophic levels, not low trophic levels, suffered the highest vulnerability to natural enemies, and showed that food webs are very incomplete without parasites.
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Ecology of infectious diseases in natural populations
TL;DR: A review of the impact of infectious diseases on wild animal populations can be found in this article, where the authors present a mathematical model for macroparasites of wildlife and discuss the evolution of host-parasite interactions.
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Social Organization and Parasite Risk in Mammals: Integrating Theory and Empirical Studies
Sonia Altizer,Charles L. Nunn,Peter H. Thrall,John L. Gittleman,Janis Antonovics,Andrew A. Cunningham,Andrew P. Dobson,Vanessa O. Ezenwa,Vanessa O. Ezenwa,Kate E. Jones,Amy B. Pedersen,Mary Poss,Juliet R. C. Pulliam +12 more
TL;DR: The effects of host density and social contacts on parasite spread and the importance of promiscuity and mating structure for the spread and evolution of sexually transmitted diseases are reviewed.