Mafalda Viana

TL;DR: This work presents a new view of ecological stability that recognises explicitly the non-independence of components of stability, and proposes a multidimensional stability framework that gives a far richer understanding of how communities respond to perturbations.

TL;DR: A conceptual framework for classifying patterns of incidence and prevalence is presented, and interventions can have a crucial role in enriching mechanistic understanding of how reservoirs function and should be embedded as quasi-experimental studies in adaptive management frameworks.

TL;DR: The relationship between cephalopod stock dynamics and environmental conditions is of two main types: those concerning the geographic distribution of abundance, for which the mechanism is often unknown, and those relating to biological processes such as egg survival, growth, recruitment and migration, where mechanisms are sometimes known and in a very few cases demonstrated by experimental evidence as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Analysis of three decades of CDV exposure data in dogs and lions of the Serengeti shows that cyclic infection dynamics in lions initially driven by dogs became more frequent and asynchronous, suggesting that the wider dog population and other wildlife species drive CDV dynamics.

TL;DR: It is shown that even highly resistant strains of the major malaria vector Anopheles gambiae have their life span cut by ∼50% after exposure to long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs), which could partially explain why insecticide resistance is not inextricably associated with LLIN failure.