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Eerin A. Mordecai
Researcher at University of California, Santa Barbara
Publications - 2
Citations - 1265
Eerin A. Mordecai is an academic researcher from University of California, Santa Barbara. The author has contributed to research in topics: Anopheles. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 1082 citations.
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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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Optimal temperature for malaria transmission is dramatically lower than previously predicted.
Eerin A. Mordecai,Krijin P. Paaijmans,Leah R. Johnson,Christian Balzer,Tal Ben-Horin,Emily de Moor,Amy McNally,Samraat Pawar,Sadie J. Ryan,Thomas C. Smith,Kevin D. Lafferty +10 more
TL;DR: A model with more realistic ecological assumptions about the thermal physiology of insects is built, which predicts optimal malaria transmission at 25 °C (6-°C lower than previous models), and predicts that transmission decreases dramatically at temperatures > 28 ° C, altering predictions about how climate change will affect malaria.