Michaela L. Speirs

TL;DR: A path analysis suggests that change in food availability has a strong direct effect on population size, but it also has an indirect effect via parasite infections.

TL;DR: It is speculated that interactions with humans may be linked to the observed patterns of infections, and hence that understanding the ecology of infectious diseases in nonhuman primates is of paramount importance for conservation and potentially for human‐health planning.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the role of the clearing of a forest fragment that supported red colobus (Piliocolobus tephrosceles) and black-and-white (Colobus guereza) and found that the animals migrated into a neighboring fragment that had been monitoring for a number of years and for which they had described the primate parasite community.

TL;DR: Colobus monkey parasite infections in wet and dry habitats: implications for climate change Colin A. Chapman*, Michaela L. Speirs, Stacey A.M.

TL;DR: It is considered it a possibility that the red colobus may be serving as a reservoir for Trichuris, thereby increasing the infection risk for black‐and‐white colobu, and that the Trichuis sp.